[tpaine]

They have a corrupt system, one that would would change with US Statehood. Just as we hope to change Iraq, we could change Mexico.

...and, and Mexicans would suddenly embrace the rule of law and dump their culturally corrupt caste system, and, and, the Mexican drug lords would cease their illicit drug trafficking and stop beheadings as their standard operating procedures, and ,and, pigs can fly, and, and.....

Belittle our efforts to expand our republican form of government if you must, -- but we are spending billions to do just that in Iraq, -- we were successful in doing that after WWII in Germany & Japan, -- and I see no reason why we couldn't do it next door in Mexico.

[rottndog]

..we were successful in doing that after WWII in Germany & Japan, -- and I see no reason why we couldn't do it next door in Mexico.

We were successful in Germany and Japan? 60 years after the fact we are still in Germany and Japan and this is a success to you? We have spent TRILLIONS of dollars rebuilding and protecting Germany and Japan, and this is a success to you?

Now, if you are serious about using Germany and Japan as a model, then you also need to be honest about what happened with Germany and Japan--We completely and totally destroyed these countries. We literally smashed them into complete ruination. Then and only then, did we step in to rebuild. If you are suggesting a similar course of action with Mexico, I might take you more seriously.

The fact of the matter is that given the level to which corruption is thoroughly embedded in the Mexican culture, nothing short of a violent and bloody revolution is going to bring that decrepit 3rd world toilet into modernity. Mexico and Mexican culture is incompatible with the U.S. and U.S. culture.

Talk to me after the revolucion.