"If the perception of the average American is that his neighbor abandoned him at this crucial time, the stigma would last for generations and be made manifest in a multitude of individual actions," Mexican analyst and historian Enrique Krauze warned this month in a Mexico City newspaper.
Luckily for Mexico, Americans have short memories. People have already forgotten what happened on 911.
Krauze cited danger of commercial boycotts, restrictions on trade and widespread resentment at the White House, in local and state governments and in the U.S. press. He fretted that Mexicans living in the United States might suffer "discrimination, persecutions, etc."
I love this one, because what's going on in Iraq is no big deal, but Krauze is worried that Mexicans here will be “persecuted.” Saddam can beat and torture people endlessly, but what a misfortune it would be if Mexicans in America are looked at cross-eyed.
While Bush said he did not expect "significant retribution from the government" against Security Council member nations that didn't line up with the United States, he pointedly left open the possibility of a popular backlash.
You mean Bush can't guarantee that American citizens won't be angry about Mexico’s vote? Boy those Americans and all that freedom, where do they get off?
"The costs to Fox of taking the U.S. side would be very high, higher than they would have been if they hadn't received those threats," Smith said. He said Fox could not afford to be perceived as submitting to pressure from an American president. .
This is obvious by the way Mexicans have taken such as active part in their governance. What the last political party was in power for 70 years? And the Mexican people really love their country, even the ones that have to sneak into America to earn a living wage.
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