“Your original claims was that the Mexican American war was because of Mexico’s aggressiveness”
The main cause of the war was the Nueces strip. Texas went to the Rio Grande. Mexico, despite the nation of Texas having won it in the war, claimed up to the Nueces.
70 American cavalry south of the Nueces was attacked by 2000 Mexican invaders and many were killed.
That’s aggressive.
Explain why the US is obligated to honor their claim to California, when they wouldn’t respect the territorial integrity of Texas.
The Mexicans started it. Or to make you happy, innocent Mexico can invade Texas and attack US soldiers and that’s not aggressive but we enter a basically empty California, pay them for it, sign a treaty,, and that’s aggressive?
The neocon mind is a wondrous thing indeed.
You can call me a neocon if that makes you happy. However, we offered to buy California before one bullet was fired. We wanted it and aimed to get it, along with a lot of other territory. Yes, Texas applying for statehood was one reason (as I mentioned in my original thread) and us wanting the whole southwest was another reason.