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Subject: Re: Babel
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On 3/27/2024 5:02 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>>> Does not count, for the same reason that 1863 unpleasantness doesn't.
>>
>> Okay, how about Pancho Villa's attack on Columbus, New Mexico in
>> March, 1916?
> 
> Was Pancho Villa an authorized representative acting on behalf of the
> Mexican government?  Or was he acting as a private citizen?
> 
> I seem to recall that Villa had previously been a representaive of the
> Mexican government but that at some point he had gone out on his own,
> and I think that was before 1916 but I cannot recall precisely.

I believe Villa's raid was after as part of why he did it was in an 
attempt to drag the US into his conflict with the Mexican government.

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