Forty Percent Of Mexicans Want To Come To The US! 1336

(Jeffrey E. Salzberg)

"Poor USA: so close to Mexico and so infested by clueless gringos who spout tired -- and utterly invalid -- cliches."

(In fact, having the USA next door is perhaps the ONLY thing Mexico has going for it in light of its lack of success in moving from its long-held Third World status to being a respectable nation.) Agree with this post? Please consider PbuttING IT ON!. "So, likewise, a pbuttionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter . . . It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others . . .

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government . . . Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests . . .

"Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and pbuttionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."