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He made some comment about they weren't worried about being invaded because Canada was our friend and Mexico was impotent. It struck me that we did not consider Mexico a friend even back then, and now Canada fits that description, not our friend but impotent.

I guess he didn't know any of the Mexicans who came over to serve in the US armed forces so they could fight Nazis. Some were even pilots and went back to serve in the Mexican Air Force or for Mexican airlines. Many more were line Grunts.

But the Mexican ruling class is another story of course. Talk about a bunch of left wing racist elitists. I think when you look up Elitist, you see a picture of the head of PRI. As far as the Canadians not being our friend. The Canadian liaison officer to the Army unit I support as a contractor seems pretty friendly, as was his predecessor. The predecessor is a crack shot and used to go shooting with the military, civilian and contractor personnel. I wouldn't go generalizing from a few whacked out left wing politicos, nor from the Quebecois.

A few individual contacts are basically meaningless, although I will have to admit when I was assigned to interview campers, who were mostly Canadians, at a Gulf Coast State Park for a college project, they were uniformly friendly. I think the fact that they were all older ones made a difference too.

I have heard some bad stories about the Dutch Army but the only Dutch officer I ever met was conservative and straight as an arrow. Oddly enough I also met him at a State Park on the Gulf coast although under different circumstances.

I always enjoy a good point. I have a good friend who served in our Army's Infantry in Vietnam in order to be ABLE to apply for citizenship, which he did after he was discharged. I stood as his sponsor, loved every moment of it. He and his wife are the types I enthusiastically hold up as a standard.

Juan spoke better English and KNEW Am. history better than most college grads, he put many of us to shame. Lordy Juan, would that there were many more of your kind...