Are you a domestic terrorist?

[Occhidiangela]

So the US beat the Mexicans in a fair fight because of underlying culture. Does that just about sum it up?

No, reductionism doesn't suit you well, nor the topic, but don't let that stop you from trying to play games. I am sure you have more to offer than that.

By the way, there is NO SUCH THING as a fair fight: you will find it next to the Easter Bunny, except in the artificial world of simulations or sport. The campaign that culminated in Chapultapec was as risky as Custer's (smaller scale) detachment operating as a small flying column in terrain he didn't know well. In that case, the flying column came a cropper. The details of how to accomplish what Scott pulled off is worth studying, though its applicabilith now, with the advent of airborne resupply, is only partly coherent as an example for future operations. Your "big hand little map" approach is as poor an analytical style as the analysis that led to the French Plan XVII.

Beyond that, I am not impressed with your dis of Antonio López de Santa Anna. In the Americas, the nineteenth century was a time of wide open opportunity, both for political experimentation and pursuing personal ambitions. James Bowie was typical of that era, as both adventurer and land speculator (of dubios integrity). Santa Anna is and was, for my money, one of the most extraordinary men of the nineteenth century in the Americas, a mover and shaker who had profound impact (for ill and good) throughout his lifetime. (One of my favorite footnotes on him is that while he didn't invent chewing gum, he was instrumental in getting the raw materials to the American who eventually did.)

For Van (rather than @ van, which was indeed the spirit of the previous elbow to the ribs)

Yes, it's always disappointing when it doesn't come after electallatio. But at least it feels good, right?

For the typically self-masturbatory altruists, in academia and at UN, who continue to practice that version of imposing their <strike>sexual</strike> political will on those places, that they get off on feeling good about themselves is a fine methaphor for their arrogance, and for the selfishness of their motives. It's a lot like GWH Bush's little Christmas Present to Somalia, circa December 1992. As we can see, that solved bloody eff all, but it sure made him feel good about himself, and a variety of globalistas in his company as well.

FWIW, I have a small suggestion: the next time you decide to juvenile off, bring a hanky to clean up the mess. :D

For the both of ya:

I had a dear friend ask me why I am, or was, so sour. While I can't quite put my finger on it, the answer to that is "everything and nothing," so I'll go back to lurk mode for a while until the sour morphs toward sweet.

Ciao