Quote: (07-01-2014 09:01 PM)BadWolf Wrote:
Hmm would it not be easier for America just to take possession of Mexico, at least then there would be no border to jump.
I don't really see why the US needs border patrol agents at all, why not just use Drones and the new Terminator type robots that the military is cooking up.
Actually James K. Polk,the U.S. president at the time of the Mexican American war didn't want to stop after acquiring New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, but he wanted to go as far as Mexico City and take over the whole country and many of his advisers were pushing him to do so. He decided not to because of American public opinion which was tired of war and because the Treaty of Guadalupe had been ratified.
Had Polk chosen to drive all his forces all the way to Mexico City and take all of Mexico, Mexico would have seized to exist and we would be talking about a U.S./Guatemala border instead.
http://teachinghistory.org/history-conte...rian/22205