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What makes you think Mexico or Canada would be any easier?

To begin with; the cultural and economic gap between Canada and North America is vitually non-existent. We have been pretending that there is a border there for nearly a century. But, with the exception of Quebec which is a little weird for us, and a little wierd for most of Canada too, we are family. I doubt we will see a bullet fired in that one, just one big reunion party with plenty of apple pie and maple syrup.

As for the southern border, we already have 10% of the Mexican population living here. They are voting with their feet and marching this way. Like Canada the cultural gap is not very big. The US, especially in the South and Southwest, are already more or less bi-lingual; the problem there is about dealing with corruption and the influence of drug smuggling. While the economic differences are larger they are not insurmountable. I don't see much shooting on that side either, unless it applied after judicial due process.

In all fairness I was not in Vietnam, but it is my impression that we never had a problem taking rice pattys. Our real problem was that we could never decide whether we wanted to win the war or sell more hardware, so we were hesitant to hit at the enemies vitals. I am sure that we will not be traveling that road anytime soon. For one thing we can no longer afford to indulge our military industrial complex at anything like the perverse scale which occurred during that conflict.

Over the next few years we are all going to be forced to make a choice. We can either deploy large numbers of troops to guard our extended borders, or we can do a real merger and find something better to do with those funds.