[Old Teufel Hunden]

"You act like it was somehow wrong that we did it."

Your original claims was that the Mexican American war was because of Mexico's agressiveness. This is the charge I was disputing. You can say all you want about California having 100 people that lived there. It was still internationally recognized as belonging to Mexico. If it wasn't, why did Polk offer a number of times to buy it from Mexico? It was a case of naked American imperialism justified by "Manifest Destiny" while you have previously argued that it was because of Mexico being agressive. That statement is simply not true.

[DesertRhino]

“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.