I Used to Be Hegel-Oh's Wrote:
However, I think a greater concern comes when some of our "neighbors" south of the border are outspoken about having the U.S. cease to exist that can bring reality to the troublesome-ness that you mentioned. Instead of it just being easy to forge documents from other countries, it may be possible that some of the countries help provide those documents. That's simply conjecture, but not outside the realm of possiblities I suppose.
Whereas I don't see the Canadian government possibly working with terrorists as readily as some south american/central american countries.
So in other words, it's bad if someone does to us what we did to Mexico about 160 years ago. Here's the board's brief history lesson for today, taken from U.S. Grant's memoirs, a longer excerpt of which can be read
here:
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Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war [with Mexico] which resulted as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.
Texas was originally a state belonging to the republic of Mexico. It extended from the Sabine River on the east to the Rio Grande on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico on the south and east to the territory of the United States and New Mexico -- another Mexican state at that time -- on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had received authority from Mexico to colonize. These colonists paid very little attention to the supreme government, and introduced slavery into the state almost from the start, though the constitution of Mexico did not, nor does it now, sanction that institution. Soon they set up an independent government of their own, and war existed, between Texas and Mexico, in name from that time until 1836, when active hostilities very nearly ceased upon the capture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people -- who with permission of Mexico had colonized Texas, and afterwards set up slavery there, and then seceded as soon as they felt strong enough to do so -- offered themselves and the State to the United States, and in 1845 their offer was accepted. The occupation, separation and annexation were, from the inception of the movement to its final consummation, a conspiracy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union.
Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manner in which the subsequent war was forced upon Mexico cannot. The fact is, annexationists wanted more territory than they could possibly lay any claim to, as part of the new acquisition.
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I love this country, even with its faults and its stupidity. I don't necessarily see it in my lifetime, but every great nation-state has gotten tripped up somewhere down the line. Personally, I'd rather not have our new overlords salivating blood when they waltz into DC.