>Mexico has a very socialist political culture and a strong anti-military >bent. I count that as two strikes against them joining the US. And yes, I >think about it seriously. > >It makes more sense to bring Canada into the fold. Maybe Quebec stays >independent if they like and the western provinces become US states. Taking >Maureen's "no borders" approach, that would actually work rather well in a >lot of respects, but would Americans and Canadians buy into it? No idea.
Not in 1000 years. Everything I've heard from my colleagues, friends and relations back in Canada is that the majority of people, even from the most hard line pro-US Tories, is a very strong anti-American sentiment that has developed over the last 5 years.. And that is entirely due to Bush. A lot of people have been reallly pissed off over such cases like Mohammed Khadr etc. That attitude is going to take a least 10 years to a generation to change. And Canada was probably the most pro US of all the countries in the world. I do not think that the US realizes the depth of the hostility to the US that has been generated since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And regardless of Barak Obama's efforts, the chances of it coming back and biting this country in the ass is far better than even. It seems to me that the US has a lot of fence mending to do given the policies of the last regime. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:286417 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
