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"If Mexico (the country of my birth) and the United States were fighting each other in a war, which side would you be on," he smugly asked. He didn't realize that such a question was and is an insult to me and thousands like me who have served and do serve in the American armed forces.

I can see where this type of question can be construed as an insult. I see it like this. Many Americans wonder about those in the US of Muslim faith because it does not seem that the vast majority of them have rose up and state - hey, we are not a part of those who want to kill you. With certain organizations within the US that loudly talk about annexing parts of the US back to Mexico, with Vincente Fox encouraging Mexicans to illegally cross over, with the Mexican army guarding their southern border; the rest of America does not see those immigrants who want to be Americans raising their voices in protest to these actions.

The question is not asked to Italians, Irish, etc., because those groups do not have some "spokesman" demanding a part of the US to house Italians, etc. When a black American boxer is fighting a white non-American boxer, I do not cheer for the white guy. I cheer for the American. When Americans see an Hispanic team cheered more than the American team in a soccer match, something is wrong.

how dare you guys even criticize this writer, you superamericans and timothy mcveighs!!!!

"If Mexico (the country of my birth) and the United States were fighting each other in a war, which side would you be on," he smugly asked. He didn't realize that such a question was and is an insult to me and thousands like me who have served and do serve in the American armed forces.

Did we NOT already have this argument, back in '76? (1776, that is)

Look at all the folks who were from 'somewhere else' in THAT battle!

How about the 'Civil War' / 'War of Northern Aggression'?

Were not the same things asked?

WWI produced the same question, as well as WWII.

Our Government locked UP people who LOOKED like the enemy in that war!

Please - don't get riled because the question is STILL being asked!

Actually, not that long ago the SAME question was raised to the Irish (who spent a lot of time funneling money to their friends back home to fight the perfidious British). A certain mayor of New York, currying favor with his Irish constituents, promised to "punch King George right in the nose" when he and Queen Elizabeth came over here to visit Roosevelt right before WWII. And you may remember a certain Father Coughlin . . . (although I read an interview with him in American Heritage magazine done when he was in his 80s and I'm willing to cut him some slack for being pure in motive but horribly mistaken)

And how can we forget the suspicion and ostracism with which the German citizens of the U.S. were treated during World War I (much more so than in WWII, when everybody was more worried about Japanese subs and saboteurs, and the Germans had been better assimilated). Remember "liberty cabbage"? Remember Frick's daughter who refused to allow German art in the Frick Museum? "Which side are you on?" was asked of Germans every day at that time, and they were reviled in the newspapers and in fiction.

My tag line seems particularly appropriate here. This guy is whining. He needs to grow up and take the long view of history. AS SOON AS his people assimilate, this problem will go away. Not before.