Posted on 01/19/2009 10:45:03 AM PST by Sammy67
In fact there also is no link to the report, which would is easy enough for anyone to have done but which also would easily debunk the entire story. (Of course the link was kindly provided by Between the Lines in post #22).
I am personally disgusted when people post this kind of misrepresentation and BS and then refer to it as "journalism". It is not.
We can only hope that this idiot's trajectory parallels that of Salvador Allende.
I see this Presidency as a constant [SHTF] event with more and more excrement hitting the ventilator, yet the compliant and obsequious press covering for him like they did for Clinton and like they did for Roosevelt for 12 FRIGGIN' YEARS.
Obama promises to be far worse than FDR and exacerbate the sadly misguided policies of one of our worse Presidents by repeating his folly and in a time even less well suited to Keynsian folly.
>>>>> WHO said it did? You’re getting distraught over what????I replied to people who said there was no report at all and NO problem in Mexico. <<<<<<
Calm down.
I CC’d my response to you as a courtesy.
That would eliminate half of the articles posted here at FR. We are required to use the original headline when posting an article. It is not an attempt to deceive FReepers. Each of us is responsible enough to determine what we wish to believe or reject with or without headline censorship.
So it’s the original article you have a problem with? Okay....
You best take that ‘calm down’ advice yourself.
If you’re printing known lies and misrepresentations, you should caveat your posts or at least somehow make it known to FR readers.
You don’t need to “censor”, just be honest.
This one didn’t need a “Barf Alert”, it needed a “Lie Alert”.
>>>> You best take that ‘calm down’ advice yourself. <<<<
I think not Auntie.
I am fuming and PO’d when people do this kind of thing.
It was only a few weeks ago that someone did exactly the same with an Army War College thesis.
It’s deceptive.
Maybe we can raise and train a big army made up of illegal aliens residing in the US and send them home to save the mother country.
Okay, I’m really trying to understand what it is you find ‘deceptive’. Is it the title?
Is it this sentence in the article?
The report states: “Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone.”
Are you saying the report doesn’t say that? Or could you not find the report? Let’s get to the bottom of it.
Or are you saying there is no threat in Mexico?
Ping for later.
...I was thinking, open the borders to all the illegal immigrants, let them get comfortable, seal the borders and the coasts, all the citizens of the US can sneak out and occupy the rest of the planet, and try to keep a Constitutional Republic or Planet...
US Army report states that America may be forced to intervene in Mexico to prevent the country from collapsing at the hands of organised crime and drug cartels. The report compiled by the army's highest command has placed Mexico alongside Pakistan as possible failed states of the future. The report states: "Two large and important states bear consideration for rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico."Let's recruit an expeditionary force made up entirely of Spanish-speaking illegal aliens. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to enlist and liberate their homeland. /sarc
Related to your Predictions threads.
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Blogging Stocks | Jan 19th 2009 | Zac Bissonnette
Posted on 01/19/2009 6:22:27 AM PST by GOPGuide
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167331/posts
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Posted on 01/19/2009 6:47:55 AM PST by GOPGuide
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167342/posts
"This document is speculative in nature and does not suppose to predict what will happen in the next twenty-five years. Rather, it is intended to serve as a starting point for discussions..."
And here are the two speculative paragraphs out of 56 pages that are generating these exaggerated stories and FR posts (with my emphasis):
"In particular, the growing assault by the drug cartels and their thugs on the Mexican government over the past several years reminds one that an unstable Mexico could represent a homeland security problem of immense proportions to the United States."
[snip]
"The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police, and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs and drug cartels. How that internal conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of the Mexican state. Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone."
[End Mexico cites from JOE]
That's it. Fifty-six pages and those two paragraphs are the totality of what we have to generate stories in blogs, mentions by Lou Dobbs, vague references in the Wall Street Journal, and posts in FR. There is no other discussion of Mexico in those 56 pages. Zero. None. Nada. Not a peep.
So, yes, these have very much been wholesale misrepresentations of the JOE report, and those who propagate it as even an unofficial Pentagon position or as anything other than thoughtful speculation and possibility are doing their readers no service.
As I've said, to do so is lying, plain and simple.
“He isn’t getting his own civilian army. He might want it but if he starts that, it’s going to be a SHTF situation imo.”
Guaranteed.
Re: Your Post#56
I agree.
More of the same interventionism.
We need to deal with the drug thugs in Mexico, like Pershing dealt with the Huks in the Phillipines.
If Mexico collapses, then the US should seize more of its territory. I am thinking AT LEAST the peninsula of Baja California, at the end of which we could build a great naval base!
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