One of the most under-reported ongoing stories around is the war in Mexico between the government and the drug cartels. Here are the grisly stats: More than 28,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 1996. In Iraq, 4,421 Americans have been killed. In Afghanistan, 1,141.
The truth is that Mexican drug merchants are even more deadly than al-Qaeda. They have more firepower, more money, and are just as willing to kill civilians as the homicidal jihadists. Yet we Americans know little about the chaotic situation south of the border.
The reason is that the drug cartels don't seem to threaten us directly. But, of course, they do. Illegal narcotics from Mexico wind up in almost every community in the United States. The FBI estimates that about 70% of crimes from coast-to-coast are drug-fueled.
The latest atrocity in the Mexican drug war was the discovery of 72 bodies on a ranch 100 miles south of Texas. The dead, 58 men and 14 women, were migrants from South and Central America. The lone survivor of the massacre says that cartel gunmen shot the unarmed folks because they resisted an extortion attempt.
The reliably anti-American New York Times partially blamed the mass killings on the USA: "Mexico's drug cartels are nourished from outside, by American cash, heavy weapons and addiction; the northward pull of immigrants is fueled by our demand for low-wage labor."
I had to read that editorial three times to believe it. Here we have the Times, which opposes putting the National Guard on the border, the tough anti-alien law in Arizona, and most other measures that might secure the border, complaining about the illegal gun and drug traffic. Can you believe this? Hey, you pinheads, if the United States would send ten thousand National Guardspeople to help the Border Patrol, drugs and guns would not be able to cross the border so easily. Comprende?
This entire grisly charade is infuriating. This country has the power to stop the smuggling of human beings and drugs across the southern border. We could do that. But we don't do it for political reasons. Meantime, the drug cartels kill at will and create terror on a scale not seen anywhere else on earth at this time.
Mexico itself is at fault because it won't ask for American help. Apparently, they think 28,000 dead is acceptable. Well, it's not. U.S. law enforcement and troops should be assisting Mexican authorities in the destruction of the cartels. The fact that these drug animals have been able to operate their murderous industry so openly for so long is beyond shameful.
When Manuel Noriega turned his country, Panama, into a narco-state in 1989, President Bush the Elder sent the Marines in to remove him. President Obama might study that campaign. Something needs to be done in Mexico.
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One of the major problems is with the police and military who are taking payola from the cartels. I have ranched and lived in south Texas since I retired from USMC and that has been a while(I am 75). I can see everyday where they cross my ranch & no one around this part of So. Tx., goes unarmed. babcock
Posted by babcock j. on September 05, 2010 at 9:32 AM
It is idiotic, isn't it. Task forces searching for far right nuts while drug cartels and their emissaries carry out atrocities all around the border.
Posted by The Ponderer on September 05, 2010 at 6:51 AM
There are terrible gang problems in Los Angeles, Oakland, CA, Chicago, and elsewhere. What happens when the whole country looks like this? It starts in our major cities and spreads because it has not been effectively dealt with. It is like corruption in our government. It has been tolerated for so long eventually it becomes the accepted norm.
As I've said in the past..The Government is concerned more with White supremacist in the hills of Montana( middle of no-where) who are preparing for the revolution ,Then the Black and Hispanic Gangs ie;crips, bloods ms13,latin kings terrorizing the major cities in America.
Posted by Bill on September 05, 2010 at 5:28 AM
I have an idea. It's kind of far-out; it relies upon personal responsibility...
It goes much deeper than the drug problem Solid. Mexico, no matter the drug situation, is already a failed nation state. They are going through what we are all sure to see in the future as we enter into the terminal decline of oil production.
Cantarell Field or Cantarell Complex is the largest oil field in Mexico and one of the largest in the world. It was discovered in 1976 by a fisherman, Rudesindo Cantarell. It was placed on nitrogen injection in 2000, and production peaked at 2.1 million barrels per day in 2003. Production declined rapidly after that, and by 2009 had fallen to 772,000 barrels per day.
Bottom line is that Mexico has no money and one of the things that produces lots of money is the drug trade. Things are going to get out of hand and quick if we don't make it stop. We have to secure our borders.
Nobody has a clue about geopolitics but if you look at all the places the US has problems and wars you will see one consistency.
That consistency is that oil is involved. It started with those that were lower on the import scale and has gradually ramped up to those higher on up. Mexico is number two. Canada is number one. They will be in the cross hairs of Americans very soon.
I guarantee it and you can mark my words.
Posted by ɐsn zqɟ on September 05, 2010 at 1:14 AM
Are they willing to address and confront the corruption within their system? Or address the inequalities within their system that create and drive so many millions to cross the US border illegally? How about demonstrating that the Mexican government is a true friend of the US and not a nation that holds out its hand for cash and uses the other hand to push its unwanted and poor into the US? One of the largest sources of cash for Mexico comes from the $40-$60B annually that is transferred out of the US and into Mexico by the millions of illegal immigrants here?
Are you kidding me? Their oil industry is in terminal decline. Drugs are the new oil and it will continue to get worse. They are going to be a net oil importer in the very near future and they are our number two behind Canada. THEY ARE DONE and we should not help them (even though we abused them). We need to build a wall and shoot to kill before it gets worse. Survival of the fittest and self preservation needs to be realized. Things are going down quick folks.
Quit ignoring reality.
Posted by ɐsn zqɟ on September 05, 2010 at 12:48 AM
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