Perhaps if the US doesn't get the Phillipines and Hawai'i, they'd consider selling the few remaining islands (which I guess would just be American Samoa?) to Japan or someone?not the mainland US or Hawaii, but I could see the US selling all those specks of land in the Pacific we acquired in an absentminded moment; I suppose we'd have to assume that the US decided that the far Pacific just wasn't worth having anything in, not sure how you'd do that...