Topic: Mexican American War. Land Grab?

KC72 · March 23rd, 2005

Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 89
What to that redoubted harpooner, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a fast-fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is texas but a fast-fish? And concerning all these, is not possession the whole of the law?
But if the doctrine of fast-fish be pretty generally applcable, the kindred doctrine of loose-fish is still more widely so. That is internationally and universally applicable.
What are the rights of man and the liberties of the world but loose-fish?...........What is the great globe itself but a loose-fish?.......What was America in 1492 but a loose-fish, in which Colombus struck the Spanish standard by way of waifing it for his royal master and mistress? What was poland to theCzar? What Greece to the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All loose-fish.
This opens chapter 1 in a book by Niall Ferguson called Colossus(The rise and fall of the American empire)

March 23rd, 2005
KC72 Tribuni Angusticlavii Gear	Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 89 What to that redoubted harpooner, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a fast-fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is texas but a fast-fish? And concerning all these, is not possession the whole of the law? But if the doctrine of fast-fish be pretty generally applcable, the kindred doctrine of loose-fish is still more widely so. That is internationally and universally applicable. What are the rights of man and the liberties of the world but loose-fish?...........What is the great globe itself but a loose-fish?.......What was America in 1492 but a loose-fish, in which Colombus struck the Spanish standard by way of waifing it for his royal master and mistress? What was poland to theCzar? What Greece to the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All loose-fish. This opens chapter 1 in a book by Niall Ferguson called Colossus(The rise and fall of the American empire)