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Nor do the professors on American campuses teaching them that "history" about how their land was "stolen". Talk about subversive professors....
Learn from history!
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Hypothetically... let's give it back. Then what? It becomes part of Mexico and they no longer get the bennies associated with being in the U.S.
Not real deep thinkers, are they?
Thanks for posting this, though KCET is Los Angeles' left leaning PBS station. This seemed a pretty reportorial account of aspects of the conflict. What would be more interesting would be an account of how the area in question was "governed" by those who took it first from the native Indians. The native Indians did not appreciate Mexican/Spanish rule. The Mexicans did not have the ability to administer the area nor to maintain order. Geronimo, jailed by the Mexican government, earned part of his reputation "dissing" Mexican authority. Mexico couldn't develop a decent government then and it can't do so now within Mexico's current borders.
Mexico stole it from the American Indians. We bought it from Mexico.
You forgot Texas. Obviously these people are disavowing what Santa Ana did at the battle of San Jacinto when he signed over Texas to Sam Houston.
Mexico in the 1840's was a new country whose legitimacy, and hold on lands it claimed in the north was tenuous and not entirely legitimate. The United States cleverly took advantage of that situation.
This is fascinating but not very useful to refute the argument of the illiterate invaders among us. More useful would be research into what the newspapers and government of Mexico were saying at the time, both privately and publicly.
I won't hold my breath, since I suspect that the only existing legitimate government in Mexico which could legitimize the final settlement of the war were laughing all the way to the bank...
Analyzing an event 150 years old by today's Political Correctness is naive at best, fraudulent at worst.
So... no, it's not really their land.
They can only understand force; the force of numbers, in their case. I would caution them to not push it.
There, fixed.
If you get out a map and look even half heartedly, you will see that most of Arizona is soverign Indian land.
Extremely large sections of Arizona will hve to be taken from the Indians if they want to Mexicanize it.
The solution is to invade and recapture all of Mexico. Winfield Scott and Robert E Lee did it once in the 1840's and we should send Tommy Franks to do it again.
We can then sort it all out with Mexico as a territory.
It's obvious they know nothing about history. Some think they are like the Jews in 1938 Nazi Germany.
Spain stuck a flag in N American and tried to claim the Continent... then Mexico think it all there... (by the same logic the US own the whole Moon... and maybe some day all of Mars)... Well the US didn't get all the UK N American claim else we have Canada or a a good chuck of it (remember 54'40" or fight...we settled for the 49' parallel)...
And .. quite obviously they have been lied to for years.
We paid mexico 15 million for it, when we paid mexico 15 million that was a huge huge sum of money and mexico was thrilled to receive those monies.
YOU CAN'T REWRITE HISTORY....it's past and there for all to see...