The latest on the plan to send the Guard to the Mexican border reminds me that we really should look into impeaching the president for failing to nail a terrorist thug who attacked us on our own soil. Despite years of effort, the terrorists got away with killing Americans. And in the end we stopped looking for him in order to go off on some crusade to impose democracy on people with no history of anything but violence and autocracy in a pure war of choice.
Of course, the thug was Pancho Villa and the war was World War I. Despite our invasion of Mexico, we never got Villa:
Advanced elements of the expedition penetrated as far as Parral, some 400 miles south of the border, but Villa was never captured. The campaign consisted primarily of dozens of minor skirmishes with small bands of insurgents. There were even clashes with Mexican Army units; the most serious was on 21 June 1916 at Carrizal, where a detachment of the 10th Cavalry was nearly destroyed. War would probably have been declared but for the critical situation in Europe. Even so, virtually the entire Regular Army was involved, and most of the National Guard had been Federalized and concentrated on the border before the end of the affair. Normal relations with Mexico were restored eventually by diplomatic negotiation, and the troops were withdrawn from Mexico in February 1917.
My grandfather was in the New York National Guard when he was called up to serve on the border prior to World War I. So I might have standing to sue, shouldn't I?
So when do we impeach President Woodrow Wilson?
I mean, really, does anybody actually think the Germans could have sunk the Lusitania on their own? Oliver Stone, call your office.
