Posted on 05/26/2010 10:49:18 AM PDT by AJKauf
President Obama has finally decided to take action against the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants on our southern border, announcing a plan to mobilize 1,200 soldiers.
The president’s soothsayers must finally have noticed that Obama’s immigration non-policy and his kowtowing to Mexico’s president don’t sit well with the voters. Axelrod, et al must be worried, as there is no other explanation for this move — since it is purely political and cosmetic.
The president’s plan is a day late and a dollar short, wholly inadequate to get the job done.
In the late 19th century, the U.S. government built a series of forts in the American southwest with full complements of U.S. Cavalry. Some, like Fort Huachuca, established in 1877, are still active military posts. Huachuca was home to the famed all-black 10th Cavalry Regiment, better known as the “Buffalo Soldiers.” American icon Douglas MacArthur spent some of his youth in one of these forts — his father Arthur was the commanding officer.
The forts were designed to protect the settlers from the constant raids of the native Apaches, who didn’t take kindly to having their land taken.
It worked.....
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I would think that 1,200 would be more than enough to take Mexico City.....
With strict orders NOT to interfere with any Mexican illegals that are attempting to invade our country no doubt. 0bozo is such a faker, and he thinks Americans are fools.
Why spend money on soldiers at the border when you can build a massive, unassailable, fortified wall just once, with sensitive monitors everywhere on it, and stop illegals from crossing over?
I say, send Fort Huachuca to Naco.
1200 NG “observers” are a spit upwind to even the current ~20,000 Border Patrol on the Southern Border.
mine fields
Ping!
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