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Besides, have you seen the Mexican army? We could annihilate them with our National Guard.

Like Iraq? Like Vietnam? Or like the Redcoats thought about the colonials?

C'mon, have we learned nothing from the past? We don't have the will to fight an interminable war that we only get into because we were stupid enough to think we were invincible.

[Wallace T.]

A wall is one thing. Occupying a nation of over 100 million people is another. Mexico is much bigger than Iraq, Afghanistan, or South Vietnam.

BTW, there will never be a North American Union. Neither the Mexicans nor the Canadians would willingly enter a union with a much larger country. Both nations hold grudges against the United States as the result of 19th Century wars and their national identities are in part based on those grudges.

[Chainmail]

*Sigh* I don’t to bust your bubble, but in all three cases you cite, war had to conducted and supported from across oceans. Mexico is right here. Easy least. It’s a short drive and their army’s armed with antiques.

Now, I would never really advocate a war - so my earlier musings were just gist for discussion. But your answers strike me as borderline cowardice - you know, the “we should never fight again because Vietnam and Iraq were hard” - am I wrong?