Nadine... my point in bringing up that comparison is that we must consider the current borders to be sacrosanct, unless altered by mutually accepted agreement. Were we to fall under the specious argument that we have an obligation to "right the wrongs" committed by our forefathers in how they created these artificial borders, we would find ourselves forever embroiled in legal, or outright military conflict.
Or were we to permit the argument that we "owed" reparations for decisions made decades, if not hundreds of years before until different cultural values, we'd quickly see every special interest minority group try to make a claim, or assert a right to compensation. (eg: Jesse Jackson and this campaign for reparations for slavery).
But there's no doubt that, were Mexico inclined to press such a case, namely that the US coerced them out of their N. American territories (which the Mexicans had forced from Native Americans even earlier.. :0), they probably could justify to their own people the "insult" that had been perpetrated against them.
And in such an unlikely event that the US and Mexico commenced a hostile relationship, I can hardly see the US sitting back and letting Mexicans raid in the US from across the border, let alone permitting suicide bombing to be endorsed by a Mexican government.
Look how the US reacted to the Berlin Disco bombing?? We killed Khadaffi's kid in a bombing raid, and almost getting the head honcho himself.
Thus, I don't blame Israel on bit for retaliation to such events. If the Palestinians want war, give it to them.
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