Painting by John Gast (1872)
American Progress is an allegorical
representation of
Manifest Destiny. In the scene, an angelic woman
(Columbia, a 19th century personification of
the U.S.) carries the light
of 'Civilization' westward.
American settlers, stringing telegraph wire,
follow her. Native Americans and
wild animals flee into the darkness
of the 'uncivilized' West. Is
Manifest Destiny about to reassert itself in
the form of a preventive war
on Mexico?
'Manifest Destiny': Prepare
for U.S. Preventive War on Mexico (La Jornada, Mexico)
“They have a
historic doctrine that they define themselves by and will not abandon: Manifest
Destiny. We don’t fit into that definition - there is no room for us in it … The
U.S. right remains anti-Mexico, and will be more so for the foreseeable future.
They despise us. We used to be a nuisance, but now our lack of maturity, strength
and effectiveness in controlling the future of the nation, which affects us
both, and terrifies them.”
By Jorge Carrillo Olea*
Translated By Halszka
Czarnocka
April 27, 2012
Mexico
– La Jornada – Original Article (Spanish)
It is getting late. Perhaps due to the November elections, the
United States has been tolerant - or else is calculating what would be the
right moment. At any rate, that moment seems to have arrived. The time has come
for taking a hand in what is happening in Mexico. The evidence?: The first warning was a declaration asserted a few
months back that we are a high risk country. The second was that series of visits, which
indicated that a climax has been reached: Mrs. Napolitano, the CIA director, a
deputy defense secretary, the House majority leader and six of his colleagues, and
Vice President Biden.
This was no coincidence: no such thing exists among people
like this. All of them delivered much the same message in their speeches: we
are very concerned about Mexico. A number of new phrases were coined: “high
intensity delinquency” (HID) and “transnational criminal organizations” (TCO).
It is worth remembering that wars are not only military or police actions.
Among its non-military forms, there are political, commercial, financial, and psychological
wars, media wars, subversive wars, etc. Which one might be applied to us?
Historically, in their eyes, our country has evolved from “their
backyard” into an inconvenient neighbor, and hence, a danger to their domestic
security. We are a neighbor regarded as without the capacity to control its
destiny. They cannot tolerate that. They have a very clear identity, historically,
currently and for the future. They will not tolerate a threat from across their
indefensible southern border. And they are already extremely disturbed about a
criminal invasion and migration.
They are distressed about how petty, medium and major criminal
activity originating from Mexico is taking root in their cities. They have a
historic doctrine that they define themselves by and will not abandon: Manifest Destiny. We don’t
fit into that definition - there is no room for us in it - and they will ensure
that we don’t get in the way. In days gone by this took the form of territorial
appropriation, whereas today there are other methods of imposition and
subjugation.
Manifest Destiny, formulated in the middle of the 19th
century (By John L.
O'Sullivan of the Democratic Review, July 1845), also had British
Oregon in its sights, and revealed an expansionist doctrine that coincided with
a nascent Mexican state with little strength. It is true that we were robbed;
it is also true that we were not yet a consolidated nation capable of
self-government.
What is so unfortunate is that looking back at our history, keeping
in mind the changing circumstances, we have to face the fact that we have not evolved
enough. In the past this was shown in the case of U.S. support for President Francisco
I. Madero and Pancho Villa during our first revolution,
and then in the bloody intervention by U.S. Ambassador Henry L. Wilson, who
masterminded a regime change and the second revolution. U.S. Ambassador John Gavin brought to bear
the terrible pressure Reagan envisioned to prepare Mexico for entry into narco-politics. Let us not forget that in November 1986,
they threatened to close the border and enforce the Simpson
Rodino Act to expel more than 2 million
undocumented immigrants. Today, we are just as weak.
U.S. troops at a staging area for General John J. Pershing's
1916 incursion into Mexico to apprehend Mexican renegade
Poncho Villa, who raided U.S. territory in retaliation for U.S.
support of dictator Victoriano Huerta.
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The U.S. right remains anti-Mexico, and will be more so for
the foreseeable future. They despise us. We used to be a nuisance, but now our lack
of maturity, strength and effectiveness in controlling the future of the nation,
which affects us both, and terrifies them. We are being studied by the CIA (The
CIA handbook for Mexico), and think tanks like the Woodrow Wilson Center and
Georgetown University. We are a topic of investigation for the U.S. Army War
College and Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, under the umbrella of U.S.
National Defense University, as well as the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism,
a renowned think tank the mission of which is to help the government and
public understand the nature and magnitude of terrorist threats against the
United States and to formulate responses.
Posted by Worldmeets.US
Compared to other nations, Mexico cannot under any
circumstances be considered a well-organized country. That is true in every
field, especially for those that at the moment that interest them most: the tandem
of politics/security and justice/law enforcement. We don’t pass the test, our
score is very low, and this solidifies the legitimacy of their fears. So what
will be the updated version of the designs of [President] Polk and [U.S. Minister
to Mexico] Joel Poinsett,
of the Texas War, the
Invasion of 1847,
or the bombardment
of Veracruz and the Ten Tragic Days?
The November U.S. elections seem to have offered a sort of détente. And after that? No form of preventive war can be ruled out.
*Jorge Carrillo Olea is a
retired army general and former governor of the state of Morlos
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