A wise idea I am sure.... all I can say is, thank god you are not our president. I do not like the idea of a nuke going off so close to US soil. Now if we were discussing England, that would be a different story.
Nuclear weapons have managed to be used twice offensively and have got such a bad rep, honestly their PR firm deserves to be fired *tisk tisk*. Nuclear weapons saved lives, no pleasant tank duels in the Fulda gap because of those dastardly devices... just the occasional destruction of a third world country with a cost in lives equivalent to probably the first ten minutes of the proper war.
Cost benefit analysis is such a useful thing... so is hindsight...
Firebombing is better, but I do not want another reason to raise gas prices again.
Oh we had to raise gas prices again becuase someone though firebombinh was pretty. And those bombers dont save gas.
Personally, the most effective way is a coup. Get some one who loves the United States in office and that person will agree before he is elected, to be annexed by the United States. This will stop that pesky immigration problem and leave the Mexicans in Mexico, and they will be taxed this time.
Bring back the Monroe Doctorine, force Canada too! Long live the United States of America, largest country in the world!
(I would think it would be if it annexed Canada and Mexico.)
You know, I wonder why America did not annex Mexico when the Mexican American War ended. They had the numbers, the advantage and the high ground in the political sense. Mexico would have no choice but to accept such a treaty as their armies were wiped out, their people demoralized and the Americans had 2 other armies (not large) being raised and prepared to march to Mexico.
Other than the reason, "We fought the war for Texan rights." Why did the Americans not choose to annex Mexico?
A quick look on wikipedia reveals there was quite a bit of opposition to the war. Whigs contested the war while democrats praised it and supported it. Th president at the time was criticized by the Whigs they saying it was a aggressive unjust and unholy war.
I would assume more opposition would appear if it was suggested to march on to Mexico City.
Do you really want to deal with constant revolutions and uprisings?
Left to their own devices the Mexicans had many. Imagine how many they would have had under American rule. Also there's the distinct difference between American society which is Anglo-Protestant, and Mexican society which is Hispanic Roman-Catholic.
Well, they didn't want a larger Hispanic population chafing under their rule. Besides, would it even be cost effective to try to eat the rest of Mexico? Integrating the stuff that the US got from Guadalupe Hidalgo was difficult enough, but incorporating a whole entire country that was equal if not larger in size to the United States would be nigh impossible at best.
Silver might find that useful for the emo arguement.
On another note I listen to Opera why don’t I have an elevated risk of stabbing my wife’s lover to death, or murdering young men lusting after my daughter or trying to become the King of Spain or hiding away in an underground Grotto to plot my revenge on the world? Opera has got to be amongst the most bloody genres of music, okay its cloaked in angelic soaring notes, but that doesn’t change all that much...
However I will say that the stereotypical person who listens to Opera is already at a severe lesser risk to do those things you suggest. The stereotypical Emo music kid is usually all those stereotypical things. And so on and so forth.
leads to the Nature Vs Nurture debate. And the same answer a little of both. It could be different in each "emo". One may like the lifestyle cause of the music one may like the music cause of the lifestyle. Exact same thing with Hip-hop/rap and even country music.
Its a self-perpetuating cycle. Because their emo they go toward emo music. Listening to emo music reinforces their emo-ness makes them more pseudo-depressed, and pseudo-suicidal.
HEAVY METAL: Higher levels of suicidal ideation (huh?) depression(I use it as an anti-depressant) drug use (only booze and smokes) self-harm (I'll concede to the occasional wall punching) shoplifting (nope) vandalism (nope) unprotected sex (that's just stupid)
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