For a guy who basically ducked military duty, George W. Bush sure is quick to call out the military. (Compensation, maybe?)

His recent ploy to call out the National Guard to secure our southern borders may appeal to nativists, but isn’t going to relieve the pressure of people whose economic prospects have taken a sharp downturn in recent years, probably because of NAFTA. Nature abhors a vacuum, folks, and economic pressure is simply lower here than in Mexico.

(By the way, the immigrants are doing the “jobs Americans won’t do” because employers want to pay substandard wages for those jobs.)

All this is economics 101. And Bush isn’t really doing anything about it.

But we have his next “Mission Accomplished” photo op to look forward to.