Excellent post...there have been hints of this before, but I've never seen it laid out so completely. The answer will be, of course, integration with Mexico, already in progress. In fact they're busy reworking vocabulary...we won't read 'the US', but 'the North American Union' or its equivalent. God knows what Canada thinks of all this, but Americans are still being kept in the dark. Mexican officials, however, know all about it and brag about it in print. Mexico on her terms, warts and all. Corruption endemic, drugs, violence, you name it, and now al Qaeda. The US gets to pay the freight.