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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (123730)1/26/2004 3:48:20 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
If marcos were a nuclear power, we might have something to worry about. Seeing that he's not.....

He threw in the Mexican War as justification for his position. What THAT has to do with this matter is beyond me. One of the historical facts he likes to keep forgetting about that little brouhaha is that Mexico first declared war on the US, not the other way around. Not our problem if his side is better at running than fighting. Or at committing suicide as the cadets at Chapultepec Castle allegedly did. And that while Mexico claimed that the US was appropriating Mexican territory, there really was a legitimate dispute about the nationality of that ground. The Republic of Texas, annexed by the United States, also claimed it and had a treaty with the ink of Santa Ana, el Presidente de Mexico, on it giving them title to it. The fact that a Mexican legislature refused to recognize Santa Ana's actions and never negotiated a new treaty with the Republic of Texas counts little with me.

There IS something more useless than getting a soldier killed. That is having him commit suicide while accomplishing nothing. As was the case with those Cadets at Chapultepec.

"United Statesian" has a nice ring to it, don't you think? I suspect that's why "American" was the term adopted.

And marcos is simply going to have to live with it. Whether he wants to or not.
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