Ok, small point, but Pancho Villa was theatening our southern border much like these people are.
It sent the right message at the time and largely stopped the problem for the time being since they knew we meant business.
Now, we are a joke, a very pathetic sad joke. Fox's chamber maid GWB is doing his bidding all while we get to pay the tab.
Secretary of War Baker praised the efforts of Pershing and his men by stating that "its objective, of course was the capture of Villa, if that could be accomplished, but its real purpose was a display of the power of the United States into a country disturbed beyond control of the constituted authorities of the Republic of Mexico as a means of controlling lawless aggregations of bandits and preventing attacks by them across the international frontier. This purpose is fully and finally accomplished."