[Reaganwuzthebest]

Do you think it would still have been better if Robert E Lee had finished off Mexico in 1846 and made it a US state? What would life be like for us if we had done that?

[FITZ]

I think it would have been better if Lee had won out on that. For one it was well before we have this massive welfare system and political correctness, they'd all be speaking English by now. They wouldn't have been made corrupt by 70 years of PRI government. Look at what becoming part of the US did for Texas and California. The rest of Mexico would have done much better if it had been taken over. It seems it's now Fox that is determining all the rules ---back then it would have been Americans.

[FITZ]

In 1846, Mexico was a far better place also. For one it hadn't been independent from Spain all that long and was in much better shape than it is now ---you didn't see Mexicans fleeing Mexico when the Spaniards ruled. Mexico seems to be our problem to solve now ---too bad Lee didn't win out and it would already have been solved. I'm not sure the US can begin to fix the problems there, the elites have an awful lot of money now and they're not about to let go of it.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Do you think it would still have been better if Robert E Lee had finished off Mexico in 1846 and made it a US state? What would life be like for us if we had done that?

You didn't ask me specifically, but I cannot resist (putting on my ex-grad student history hat).

First off, I believe the treaty was signed early in 1848, and the actual fighting was over by late 1847. Robert E. Lee was just a junior officer; the generals in command were Taylor in the north and Scott in central Mexico.

Short answer: making all of Mexico part of the USA would have been a bloody disaster. Think Quebec; think Yugoslavia. A bad idea.