There's an article in today's Los Angeles Times detailing how rival gangs are fighting to control the illicit "trade routes" into the United States: "The two cartels are warring over Mexico's most valuable region for smuggling people into the United States, with an infrastructure of drivers, guides, suppliers and fleabag hotels that has pumped millions of immigrants across the border."
Nor is this some kind of isolated incident illustrating that the government of Mexico is, more and more, becoming a government in name only. The New York Times has collated four stories on the Mexican drug wars in a single posting today. And you probably already know that a Mexican official investigating the recent murder of an American on a jet-ski was himself murdered and beheaded. Beheaded!
That's right: we don't have to go to the far side of the world to find violent gangs beheading their enemies. We've got them right here, right on our border. You may reasonably disagree, but I'd rather see American troops stationed along our border with Mexico, and completely out of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
Beheadings at our doorstep and inside the border and those running for office ignore this. This is how far we have allowed this to go. Remember David Pearl etc. ...this is middle ages/mid Eastern behavior, its too late, the only thing we have left are tea party marches. You have a point, perhaps we should call it a war lost, thank God, and get those veterans back on American jobs where they belong!
ReplyDeleteCorrection: Daniel Pearl, need we say more?
ReplyDeleteRight on Mr. Moore! Lets put the "defense" back into the Defense Department. Wind down our world wide empire of about a thousand overseas bases (per Chalmers Johnson, Andrew Bacevich and Pat Buchanan). Bring our troops home and put them on our own borders.
ReplyDeleteOf course you are right Mr. Moore! It's way past time for P.C. Speak on this. Mexico is and has been for some time a failed state. Their violence is creeping into our own nation now. I live in Texas and the gangs are here as we speak.
ReplyDeleteI say, "Bring the troops home from around the globe now and put them on OUR borders." Everyone else can do their own military and defense thing. It's far too expensive to defend the rest of the world and fight other nations wars. We have a war brewing right here at home.
Mexico is a cancer growing on our body. We can either cut it out or die from it...
A few days ago an illegal alien was found beheaded in an apartment in Mesa, a city just outside of Phoenix. The gangs, violence and beheading are already here.
ReplyDeleteBravo! Everything you have said is 100% correct. I only wish it could happen. However it never will though. Our war machine is too big and too hungry for profit to ever deploy here at home. How can General Dynamics, Lockheed, and host of other U.S. companies make any money if they aren't firing advanced weapons every day? How many aircraft carriers will we have deployed around Mexico? There is no money in just deploying manpower along the border. How much ammo are they going to go through?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for all of us here in the U.S. our tax dollars will continue to go to the war machine overseas for years to come. Billions of dollars are being made on the wars abroad every day and none of the companies involved wants to lose out on that cash cow.
The best we can hope for is that they deploy all of the National Guard along the boarder. That is a much more realistic endeavor.
It is sad to see the demise of America through illegal immigration, and drug smuggling, being basically ignored by our own government. But that appears to be the road we are on. I wish voting would have an impact on the situation but, unfortunately, the seeds of destruction have been sown years ago and the roots are too deep.
Good article Walter. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy reading your posts.
How is it that they know where these guys are and what they're doing, but they just can't seem to clamp down on them?
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