Seal the border? Maybe we should open the border wide enough for a great and praiseworthy general like Winfield Scott. This time when the Matines go through the Halls of Montezuma, maybe they should leave no stone unturned and no woman unwidowed.
So, let el Presidente go ahead and praise Pancho Villa. We can praise someone else when he does, though, can’t we?
At the end of the Mexican War some Mexican grandees tried to talk Scott into pushing the Polk administration into annexing Mexico. They had no faith they Mexican people could ever put together a government that would lurch from comandante to comandante. The Polk administration said no. They then tried to talk Scott into staying as dictator, he wisely said no thanks!