“After America Comes North America,” Gen. Petraeus Boasts

New American ^ | Friday, 27 June 2014 12:30 | Alex Newman

[proust]

"Uh, we’ve tried a couple of times in history to incorporate Canada into the U.S. They said no thanks."

Already done. The North American Union was signed back in 2005, covertly.

[kanawa]

Already done. The North American Union was signed back in 2005, covertly.

The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical economic and political union of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

The concept is loosely based on the European Union, occasionally including a common currency called the Amero or the North American Dollar. A union of the North American continent, sometimes extending to Central and South America, has been the subject of academic concepts for over a century, as well as becoming a common trope in science fiction. One reason for the difficulty in realizing the concept is that individual developments in each region have failed to prioritize a larger union.

Some form of union has been discussed or proposed in academic, business, and political circles for decades.[1][2][3][4] However, government officials from all three nations say there are no plans to create a North American Union and that no agreement to do so has been signed.[5][6][7] The formation of a North American Union has been the subject of various conspiracy theories.[8][9][10][11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Union

[kanawa]

Good for a chuckle...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/North_American_Union

[Tailgunner Joe]

I knew something stunk about Petraeus way back when he said de-baathification and disbanding Saddam's army were mistakes. There was no doubt at all that he was a rat when he supported the repeal of “don't ask, don't tell,” and said that Terry Jones threatening to burn the koran endangered the war effort. What a scumbag.

[proust]

I guess that makes Petraeus a lone nut.

[lentulusgracchus]

What used to be foilhat is not the real thing: ...

"Foilhat" .... interesting new adjective. Genuine 21st-century colloquial coinage. Duly noted.

I thought FR had a rule against quoting/featuring Birchers?

[lentulusgracchus]

.... Petraeus was similarly boasting about the ongoing merger in a piece entitled "Perfect Partners: North America's Shared Future" he authored with fellow fringe globalist and ex-World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

Zoellick is hardly "fringe" .... in the 80's and 90's he had a rep as a foreign-policy heavy.

[lentulusgracchus]

The larger question is why did the "Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty" choose to have a conference about "what comes after the United States" and why would Gen. Petraeus want to speak there.

Here's another question: Why is a conference named for Margaret Thatcher and dedicated to the topic of liberty, being hijacked by men dedicated to enslaving the world?