




There is a popular theory about the United States that it is a young nation with a great future before it. Mistakes made by the United States are usually discovered in hind sight.  At the time, any foreign intervention seems to be the right thing to do but later it is discovered that perhaps invading a country without having an exit plan is detrimental to the longevity of support from the people.  Exterminating the American Indians are considered the growing pains of a youthful nation.  We legitimize it by saying it was a necessary step in progression.  But I believe we are heading to a United States that will be once again divided by people and their religions.

     On March 1st, 1781 the Articles of Confederations created the United States of America.  This was a time when Great Britain claimed all of the United States.  During the Revolutionary War, we were fighting Great Britain for independence.  During the Civil War, we were fighting each other for our different beliefs and land.  After the Civil War, we as a people had a very uneasy truce as we continued to expand west.  In the process, killing and displacing native Americans.  Individual states battled each other over boundaries.  As we continued our expansion in the west we fought with Mexico to gain more land.  In the recent past, January 3, 1959, we admitted Alaska as the 49th state.  May 26, 1977, Several parcels were exchanged between Texas and Mexico along the Rio Grande in areas near Presidio and Hidalgo, Texas, including the Horcón Tract, on which the town of Río Rico was located, and Beaver Island near Roma, Texas. Mexico ceded 823 acres to the U.S., while the U.S. ceded 2,177 acres to Mexico, primarily to straighten sections of the Rio Grande for flood control.  There are numerous other boundary disputes and transfers like the Panama Canal back to Panama.   

     In almost every war the United States has been involved in we have left a military force in place.   The 38 large and medium sized American facilities spread around the globe in 2005, mostly air and naval bases, almost equals Britain’s 36 naval bases and army garrisons at its imperial zenith in 1898.  The Roman Empire at its height in 177 AD required 37 major bases to police its realm from Britannia to Egypt, Hispania to Armenia.  During the reigns of these two empires native peoples were displaced, forced to adapt to their rulers and used as forced labor.  For both of these conquerors they found contempt from the people they ruled.  The native people rose up and fought back forcing a complete wipe out of the occupiers or the foreigners forced to retreat back to their country of origin.  In the Roman case, they did not have enough troops back in their home country to fight off their neighbors that eventually caused the collapse of the Roman Empire.  

     As time continued people from conquered nations migrated to their foreign neighbors and established their own ethnic areas where they practiced their religions.  Sometimes accepted by the foreign country they migrated to and others brutally driven out.  Italians moved from Italy to the United States.  Settling in New York they built their own communities and eventually merged and conformed to their newly adopted country.  Intermarrying and settling into the American way of life of baseball games and holidays.  The United States became the melting pot as people migrated steadily into a country that accepted you as you were.  Accepting all religions, faiths and types of people.  

    The many wars that the US has been involved with has slowly started to affect who we allow into the country.  In Iraq and Afghanistan there were men and women who translated for the coalition forces to include the United States.  Many of the interpreters, in the early years of the wars, were allowed to carry firearms but as politics came into the picture they were forced to go defenseless into high attrition areas.  As our need for interpreters became a priority we started to give them passage into the United States for their service to us.  They migrated with their families with the blessings of most of the citizens of the United States because they risked their lives in service to your country.  They were properly vetted and immunized so that they wouldn’t cause any harm to the United States by radicalization or diseases.  As the wars escalated and more and more people were forced to become refugees, it became the politics of the day that it was the United States responsibility to let more immigrates into the United States.  Instead of making a safe haven in their own countries until hostilities subsided.  

     The politics of today seems to focus on illegal immigrants from Mexico.  But if liberals would take a moment to realize that it’s not just illegals from Mexico crossing the border into the United States.  South America offers a vital highway north into America and anyone who can get to South America can eventually make their way into the United States.  So now there are two ways you can get into the United States.  One is to do the background check and then to take the necessary steps to become a citizen.  Or two, arrive illegally and survive in the shadows.  Not trusting the country you are in and living in fear that you will be caught and deported back to your country of origin.  Our democracy which founded this country has now taken an unusual step and now treats these illegals with benefits, voting rights.  These non-citizens are given safe areas in certain cities where even if they commit multiple felonies they will not be deported.  

Simply put they are becoming citizens without the proper vetting to ensure they are willing to adapt to a new country, obey the law and not to intimidate others who don’t follow their beliefs.  

     As countryman, we are slowly being outnumbered by the people we let in.  As we try and pursue our dreams of a college education, we delay starting our own families.  In the meantime, these foreigners continue to have children, which, having been born in the United States they become citizens.  Giving them full benefits of being a citizen of the United States.  

     If we continue to have borders that are not secure we will eventually be forced to relinquish control of the States as we appease those that entered after us.  We as United States citizens will be bred out of our own country.  The United States Constitution will become null and void as the country of foreigners begin to elect their own and twist our own laws against us.  Look what happened to the separation of church and state.  We will slowly be torn apart from within, weakened by political infighting and then eventually be overrun by the next strong super power.  We will then now what it feels like to be an American Indian and history will relate us to the fall of Rome.  The few patriots that remain will be called the American Taliban as they fight for the life that once was.