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RE: Sniff Sniff ... something's burning.
They have a valid point about the history of Texas. We took it.
There is a very fundamental flaw in this sort of thinking (the denial of territorial rights with regard to territory obtained by conquest).
First, a slight correction: Texas actually wasn't taken - Texas declared independence from Mexico on it's own in 1836 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_1836), which sparked the Mexican-American War, that was ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo where Mexico ceded most of the rest of the SouthWest to the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo).
But if we dismiss the legitimacy of obtaining territory by conquest, what legitimacy is left, frankly?
You would have to give up the British Isles - a few times. Most of Europe would be gone. And let's not forget about the Roman Empire...
Hm - as I re-read your comment, I see that it's just a bad troll. I probably shouldn't respond (and I will leave the rest of your nosense alone) - but that particular argument is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, you could say.
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