America is a complicated friend and partner. Certainly they have, in their own right, gone out of their way to build a very complex network of trade agreements in the region. Egypt, Morocco, and others, as I mentioned in my remarks, are already active in Jordan. With our own trade relations and economies bound together, my view on policy is that we should be lock-step with the Americans. Wherever they are, we are. That would certainly include Mexico.
I was serving in Greece when the Mexicans negotiated a free trade agreement with the European Union. Literally the next day the Mexican ambassador, who is a close friend of mine, was promoting the links between Europe and Mexico. Volkswagen went in and put a plant there very quickly after that.
We have bound our economies together, and we must bind them together internationally or it will be to our very significant disadvantage.