If Texas were not a state, America might have only started one land war in Asia we couldn’t win instead of three.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Yes but the US still got off easy: Texas also has the constitutional right to split itself up into five states… so all things being equal, 8 losing Asian wars were avoided.
read nate silver over at 538, he had a bit different take on it, but still: hey rick, can we talk?.
If Texas wasn’t a state we could invade it, torture Texans without due process and take their oil. Save on translators too.
Inconceivable!
Is that A Princess Bride reference?
A movie better quoted than watched.
It is incredibly quotable.
But of course! I don’t expect to see another Texan in the White House in my lifetime.
George wouldn’t’ve moved here. Y’all’d’ve had him up in the Northeast!
And no voting rights act.
Maybe all three–Vietnam really took off under LBJ.
if you want
4. Afghanistan
How is Korea the fault of Texas?
it’s not. Missouri owns that baby.
Anyway Massachusetts and California share Vietnam with Tejas.
And Connecticut can run, but it can’t hide from W.
America’s intervention in Vietnam, as far as backing the French restoring their colonial empire in Southeast Asia, goes back to immediately after WWII, so that goes to Truman and Missouri.
Of course, Diem had been a collaborator with Japan during WWII, so you could go that way. And you could do a similar thingie with Korea.
Who gets credit for Georgia?
‘Involvement’ in Vietnam wasn’t the problem. Escalating it into a land war involving hundreds of thousands of American troops was the problem. LBJ made the truly fateful decision and it remains on him.
I thought you were referring to Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
it would lose all that money that it’s sucking from the federal tit.
Not much has changed since the Civil War.
19 April 1866, The Independent, pg. 4:
But these states are not yet reduced to civil behavior. As an illustration, Gen. Sheridan sends word up from New Orleans, saying, “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.” This is the opinion of a department commander.
..and our financial institutions might be solvent, or not.