A Can of Man
Je suis aware
Assigning an M1A2 to BP might help as well.
Sure, we should wait until "somebody" issues them white flags and brings them all back from wherever they are and then discharges them and cuts the military funding to the bone again. This coming from someone who just knocked isolationism because it facilitated both world wars.
You can't have it both ways. We have the resources to protect our borders and protect our interests anywhere. We just need to use them efficiently. The borders need to be tightened up. Drug runners, illegal aliens, and terrorists all have way too easy access to the U.S..
If you want to come here, do it legally. Our borders need to be not just protected but secured.
Assigning an M1A2 to BP might help as well.
We would, except for the fact that *somebody* sent them to Iraq as well as the Army and most importantly the Texas National Guard whose job this should be.
"When the cats away, the mice will play" as the saying goes...
Still, even if the drug trade is good for the Mexican economy, the Mexican government is still risking a huge international incident with its northern neighbor by having its troops over the border.
Wars have gotten started that way...
We would, except for the fact that *somebody* sent them to Iraq as well as the Army and most importantly the Texas National Guard whose job this should be.
"When the cats away, the mice will play" as the saying goes...
Still, even if the drug trade is good for the Mexican economy, the Mexican government is still risking a huge international incident with its northern neighbor by having its troops over the border.
Wars have gotten started that way...
It may come as a surprise to you, but the National Guard has a dual mission in this country. One is as a state militia and the other is a Federal mission to supplement the regular full time military when activated. The latter mission supersedes the prior, that's the law. The Guard does many tasks but the bottom line is that the Guard is a military organization not a police force. Therefore once the Texas National Guard became activated, they ceased to be under the control of the state of Texas and became a Federal military organization, under the auspices of the Federal Government. If the Federal Government decided to send them to the moon, that's where they're supposed to be, nowhere else.They should not have been sent at all, that's what I am saying. The Army fights the wars, not the NG. The NG job was to stay in Texas and protect the state.
You say we have the resources to do both but apparently we don't because BP still complains to this day that they are undermanned as does the NG and the military. The BP is a law enforcement force not a military one, it cannot be expected to protect our frontier from Mexican military opposition. If the National Guard was where it was supposed to be then maybe we wouldn't have have bribed Mexican soldiers on our territory protecting drug shipments. Hurricane Katrina was another example of why the NG should not have been sent overseas.
I like this.
This reminds me too much of this:
I wuz thinkin' more like this:
Redneck, I'm not real impressed with that guard post in your post. I reckon it could be a real bummer on a stormy winter's night.
I'd say it's certainly on the DMZ, see that little party house about 800 yards to the front across the river. I'll bet if I were given a good pair of binoculars, I would see a pair of binoculars in there looking right back at me.It's a long border. And yeah, those places get COLD. Even with an electric heater it will freeze your nuts off.
That guard post is more nicely constructed than the stuff I had to stand in (although ours was actually bulletproof). Don't know about that one in the picture though. Don't even know exactly what it's guarding. I'm assuming it's somewhere up in the DMZ though.
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