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Call me an arrogant Mick, but Mexico as a country displays nothing
but contemptible backwardness driven by elitism and corruption.

I really liked your commentary.
And that line really does hit me.

I guess, even though I'm just an occassionaly sauced, sometimes
agnostic, sometimes non-denominational Christian believer,
of "mutt" heritage (Welsh, Danish, French, German, and G-d only
knows what sneaked in there!)...
I occasionally wish that some of our brave US military personnel of
Mexican extraction wouldn't just quitely form a corps of a thousand and
just take Mexico City, "dispose" of the current Mexican grandees,
and just declare it the 51st state.

And then I realize that's just a dream...fraught with all sorts
of possible "unintended consequences".

[sgtyork]

Absolutely. We should have annexed the northern provinces. They want jobs and opportunity, build them there where they have resources that are tied up by the Mexican ultra-rich.

BTW, my son went to a military school in the US where many of the Mexican elites send their sons for a year. Of interest was that many of these scions of the ultra rich did not know how to complete their own toillette if you catch my drift. They were so rich that they had servants that cleaned their orifices. Astounding!

Mexico is the true example of the two nations that John Edwards is talking about, yet Democratic policies and tactics will bring it about.