"David Thornley" wrote in message
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In article , Spiv
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I know exactly what they are. Overseas territories, are just that, no
matter what the sovereign state calls them.

If you are going to suggest that Alaska and Hawaii are not part
of the US, you're suggesting something that nobody will agree with.

Now, if the US can be geographically split, why can't France or
Denmark? Without actually looking at a globe, I'd imagine that
Greenland is closer to continental Denmark than Hawaii is to
the continental US.

In your logic all of the British Empire was the UK. And Britain killing
100,000 Japs in the "UK" was not worth it, as it was a distraction of some
sort and all Britain's forces should have been around Japan. Hawaii is not
even in the American continent.