[sinkspur]

Yes, but to say that almost guarantees you'll get flamed - at least around here. I highly doubt that if some Mexican terrorists captured some US border patrol agents, that the US would be launching an all-out invasion of Mexico and bombing the Mexico City airport.

If the same Mexican terrorists had killed eight of our soldiers, and had killed them at the bidding of Vicente Fox, and this killing was only the latest in a long line of killings and terrorist activity, the US military would own Mexico City.

[churchillbuff]

had killed them at the bidding of Vicente Fox,"""

Ah, there's the rub. Are you saying that the government of Lebanon ordered the kidnapping of these soldiers? I haven't even heard the Israeli government claim that. This is more like a raid by a Poncho Villa-style terrorist organization. When that happened to the US, the army went after the bandits - we didn't go to war against the entire Mexican nation.