Posted on 11/17/2007 9:40:53 AM PST by goldstategop
It is an invasion. Why? Numbers, concentration over a short time period, the illegality of entry, the sanctioning and the promotion thereof by Mexican authorities and government.
And indeed to your other point, national sovereignity. Many Americans do have a problem understanding what nation-hood means anymore, as they have been inculcated in media, textbooks and teachings to view us as world citizens. Thankfully there is a vibrant and growing number of citizens who DO understand, who have re-educated themselves to those things about law, civics and history which only two generations ago were standard curriculum. In fact, we auto-redactors may now be the majority.
But Americans aren't novelty junkies on the important things. The New World is one of the oldest settled constitutional democracies on Earth, to a degree the Old World can barely comprehend. Where it counts, Americans are traditionalists.
We know Eastern Europe was a totalitarian prison until the Nineties, but we forget that Mediterranean Europe (Greece, Spain, Portugal) has democratic roots going all the way back until, oh, the mid-Seventies; France and Germany's constitutions date back barely half a century, Italy's only to the 1940s, and Belgium's goes back about 20 minutes, and currently it's not clear whether even that latest rewrite remains operative. The U.S. Constitution is not only older than France's, Germany's, Italy's or Spain's constitution, it's older than all of them put together.
Americans think of Europe as Goethe and Mozart and 12th century castles and 6th century churches, but the Continent's governing mechanisms are no more ancient than the Partridge Family. Aside from the Anglophone democracies, most of the nation-states in the West have been conspicuous failures at sustaining peaceful political evolution from one generation to the next, which is why they're so susceptible to the siren song of Big Ideas – communism, fascism, European Union.
If you're going to be novelty-crazed, better the zebra-mussel cappuccino than the Third Reich.
Obviously, you are a slaver owner.
Well, as far as I’m concerned... Rush has been one of the biggest forces for good in the USA!!!
Perhaps it is just your delirious point of view, but you’re out of your danged gourd there, horny toad!!!
Iowa Speech, Aug. 2007
http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2007/08/duncan_hunter_gave_fantastic_s.html
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