But remember, had there been a
UPDATE: Lyndon Johnson.
FURTHER: Note the correction. "Border war" made no sense in context, and there was a border war with an Alamo insurgency force concentration put down by superior lethal force, much as with Mad Dog Mattis' Fallujah put down. Each barbaric in its implementation. Each ultimately ineffective in the end.
If there'd been a border wall perhaps Sam Houston would have had no town named after him.