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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MikeH who wrote (5045)	11/15/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: truedog	Respond to of 6418

Mike, I don't want to start an argument but, please read a short biography of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. He was a mental case with delusions of grandeur. He called himself the Napoleon of the West, and in his checkered career in the affairs of Mexico, was known to make insane decisions, and flip-flop allegiances at the drop of a hat. This was not a matter of socio-economic views but an out-and-out power struggle. I am as anti the Euro-American concept of Manifest Destiny as any one and, being part Indian, resent what the white Europeans did in the name of progress but, what Santa Anna did was not a part of that. I hasten to add, though, that what Sam Houston did, under orders of Andrew Jackson, was, definitely, all about real estate. Most honest Texans will admit to this, and acknowledge the 2,000 U.S. troops just across the Sabine River in Louisiana, ready to come across and join the fray if needed. Only a small contingent actually joined Sam Houston at San Jacinto because the Mexicans were caught in the middle of siesta. TD