Ghost of a flea: Don't mess with Texas

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February 23, 2009

Don't mess with Texas

For all that Europe has mortgaged its entire civilization so that a generation or two can stretch their pensions, English-speaking North America has only been prevented from the same mistake by the good fortune of an impoverished - and largely Catholic - Latin America (I haven't a clue how the Japanese have managed; they do not seem to have imported a generation of of their neighbours' children to look after them in their old age).

For all that Mexicans and the like have proved far less disruptive of America's version of Western Civ than their Turkish and North African equivalents have been to the Europeans, the melting pot risks being tipped over by events (not the most elegant parallelism I have ever managed but I hope you get my gist nonetheless).

Things appear to be getting out of hand south of the border.

"Worst-case scenario, Mexico becomes the Western hemisphere's equivalent of Somalia, with mass violence, mass chaos," said Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank. "That would clearly require a military response from the United States."

Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 23, 2009 07:54 AM

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Keep in mind that Texas, my native state, has loved its guns since 1836, a fact well known by those south of the Rio Grande. Hell, even the "Tejanos" have guns. However, unlike the same scenario unfolding in southern California, the potential "military response" in southern Texas would largely be private citizens.

No, you most definitely do NOT mess with Texas.

Posted by: geomatic1 at February 23, 2009 11:01 PM