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Mexico and the U.S. in crisis mode
Posted by TheBigRuski • 3/03/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: drug cartels, drugs, Mexico, murder, politics, u.s.
U.S. Says Threat of Mexican Drug Cartels Approaching 'Crisis Proportions'
Two of Mexico's deadliest drug cartels have reached a combined force of 100,000 foot soldiers, wreaking havoc across the country and threatening U.S. border states, the U.S. Defense Department told The Washington Times.
The cartels rival the Mexican army in size and have both Mexico and the U.S. in crisis mode as they deal with what they fear is a coming insurgency along the border.
"It's moving to crisis proportions," an unidentified defense official told The Times. The official also said the cartels have reached a size where they are on par with Mexico's army of 130,000.
About 7,000 people have died in the last year — more than 1,000 in January alone — at the hands of Mexico's increasingly violent drug cartels. Murders often involve beheadings or bodies dissolved in vats of acid.
source: www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,504139,00.html
Who are the bad guys?
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I'm guessing you are going to say the abortionists or those people for gay marriage.-
Yeah, if the murderers are anti-abortion then TBR wouldn't consider them the bad guys.
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Who are the bad guys? Are you serious?
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Who are the bad guys? Are you serious?
See Anok in "Texas on Alert" BC thread. -
As usual - we created another mess so we can come to the rescue.
The drug cartels are the bad guys - the military who is corrupt are the bad guys, and the US for making it all possible are the bad guys.
The good guys are:
Innocent civilians.
Now, what are we doing to help them? -
If Mexico were in the Middle East then air strikes and artillery bombardment would be considered the best way to help the innocent civilians. -
Russians are responsible for a lot of the problems in Mexico. In the 90s, they created the drug cartel down there and started much of the gangland activities such as drug trafficking, sex slave trafficking, kidnappings, heinous murders... It seems that the locals recognized the profitability of all of it and took over.
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Mexico was ruled by one major drug cartel which broke up into rival factions.
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Texas on Alert! was the thread this conversation was taking place in. For those who would like to refer to it rather than covering the same old ground that has already been addressed in that thread this is the link www.blogcatalog.com/politics/discuss/entry/texas-on-alert
From that thread I repeat:
America has created an enormous debt by squandering trillions of dollars on the so-called "war on drugs". They have imprisoned hundreds of thousands of the little dealers and mules at public expense, without getting near the "drug lords," and thereby have demonstrated that the idiotic "war of drugs" is costly and ineffectual. Worse still they have saddled generations to come with the obligation to pay that debt. The same is also true of Mexico.
Obviously, the most sensible way of dealing with this artificially created problem of supply and demand for a natural occurring plant, a weed that can be readily grown in many climatic zones in the backyards of citizens in both countries, is for both countries to decriminalize marijuana and cut the cartels off at the knees.
Decriminalizing marijuana would free up trillions of dollars that could be put to good use in both countries. It would mean that the jails that are bursting at the seams would not be full of small time dealers and mules and the court system that's plugged up with these petty criminals could be relieved of the burden that draws so heavily on tax dollars. It would also mean that policemen and women could be put into service in areas where their labor is sorely needed.
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