Actually we did steal Texas, New Mexico and AZ---not to mention the rest of America.
Now, you can slice it, you can dice it any way you want---we took by force of arms.
I am glad we did---they are now trying to take it back.
So let's get off this and prepare a plan to stop it. They didn't or could not. Nothing is yours unless you are willing to protect it---no matter how you got it.
Blessings
Actually Bill we also paid for those territory's twice just like we did with Alaska . But the Russians
honored that deal and never came back asking for more .
AZ and NM were taken from the Apachie , Navajo , and several other tribes long before we ever showed up . An Apachie once told me if it hadn't been us it would have been someone else .
The French were very active as an Allie of Mexico around the time of the Alamo . The Mexican army
had been trained and supplied by Napoleon .
These Doolittle raiders knew that was going to be a suicide mission , there chanches of survival were
very slim . The whole insanity of that mission was what cought Japan so off guard . That's what
made these airmen so special, America's pride needed this victory after Pearl .
Even if the damage they had caused was minimal to the Japanise war machine the fact they were
successful had the Emporer not as confident that they had done the right thing .
Even Hitler was upset with Japan over Pearl he expressed his concerns over their timing .
His Merchant Marines were still relying on US cooperation in that area of the Pacific for safe passage .
His chief Admiral of the Kriegsmarine was already Leary of the American Navy in the Pacific and the
sophistication of our aircraft carriers . Which by the way were the primary targets at Pearl but they
were not there . This raid had Hitler stomping his feet telling the Japanise I told you so .
Hitter felt he no longer had any leverage with the US so reluctantly he declared war on us in order
to place his Navy in a high state of alert . After this raid the Nazi fears were confirmed , they didn't
at the time know how difficult this raid had been to pull off . All them and Japan knew in the days
that followed is that the American aircraft carriers had the ability to deliver medium bombers .
Back then that would have been enough to scare anyone the psychological effect of this raid on the
axis powers was devestating .
Even Churchill demanded an immediate meeting with Roosevelt over our ability to do this . He
wanted those carriers repositioned in the N. Atlantic against the U Boats. Roosevelt refused and
its a good thing he did or we never would have won at Midway or Truck harbor .
Hitter may have had his U Boats and their bases but we had carriers capible of launching bombers .
Or that is what they thought and it bought us some needed time with Germany .
