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Let's first take into consideration that the Posse Comitatus Act was specifically enacted to stop Federal troops from enforcing civilian laws in the post-Civil War south before taking apart the remainder of your ridiculous list.

Next, I guess I have to explain the difference between the National Guard (a State Militia) and the U.S. Army (Federal) to you, you seem not to be real clear on the difference between the two, since you've listed National Guard interventions as part of your examples of the US Army enforcing civil law.

In order to understand the role of the U.S. Military in our country, you must first understand the natural aversion of the Americans at the time of the Revolution, to the age-old practice by European monarchs of using the military to keep the masses in place. The Founders themselves envisioned a militia-based military that would have no role in the enforcement of Civil Laws.

The Spanish-American War did not see any militarization of the borders, and the Pancho Villa raids sparked Pershing's Punitive Expedition into Mexico, not a militarization of the borders.

To the best of my knowledge, the US Army was too busy during either World War to take an active role in protecting the domestic borders, and that task was once again left to the Reserves, and the National Guard.

Unless of course, you can substantiate your claims that it did. Or substantiate anything at all that you posted for that matter.

Hmmmm, Posse Comitatus? Let's see, was that law ever really taken seriously, uh no, not by many presidents. You mistake one thing right off the bat. Although the National Guard is thought to be 100% controlled by the governors of the various states, you are incorrect. In the Little Rock case it was a Federalization of the Guard under the orders of the President which put them under U.S. Army control. The Commander in Chief reserves that right at any time overriding any orders of the state governments. But on to dismantling your abusurdities in defense of the bandit nation of Mexico.

"The Spanish-American War did not see any militarization of the borders, and the Pancho Villa raids sparked Pershing's Punitive Expedition into Mexico, not a militarization of the borders."

The U.S. Army was deployed in the Keys and throughout south Florida during the Spanish American war as there was a fear of invasion by the Spaniards. It was bogus, but I guess you only want deployments on the Mexican border. The U.S. military was deployed throughout Texas, New Mexico and Arizona along the border to prevent Villa from crossing at a different location. It was a small deployment (less than 6,000 troops total) but it was a border deployment.

"To the best of my knowledge, the US Army was too busy during either World War to take an active role in protecting the domestic borders, and that task was once again left to the Reserves, and the National Guard."

Well, to the best of your limited knowledge obviously. An Army division was deployed on the Mexican border as a message to the corrupt government in nacholand because it was feared that they would accept the offer of becoming allies with the Germans in WWI. Gee, what a shocker. We also deployed "reserves" (BZZZZZZZZZZT again, Reserves are members of the U.S. Armed Forces, not just the National Guard) along the border to assist the authorities in preventing infiltrations from our alleged ally to the south during WWII. The Mexican government protested but Roosevelt would not hear it as the lazy "ally" to the south sat on their hands instead of assisting in the largest war in human history.

Since the Mexican-American War in the 1800's, it has been demonstrated that Mexico is no ally of the U.S. W is playing the American people for fools in the interest of big oil on this one. Most of us know the difference between an ally and a blood sucker. Mexico's government thinks it's ok to send their scum across the border to bleed our tax dollars dry with millions of illegal immigrants. Mexico has done ZERO, nothing, nada to stop the flow of Islamic terrorists across the border (well documented by FNC, if you're too lazy to look it up that's your problem), and Mexico is well known to enjoy the financial benefits of the drug trade. I say close the borders completely. End this nonsense that Mexico is an "ally" as with the declaration of their foreign minister last night, it's obvious they are not. And deport the illegals en masse. I'm tired of paying for another nation's failures. And in the last 50 years that's all our foreign policy has done.