Mybe not daddy,
The time is about right for this to be brought forward as far as problem/reaction/solution management of the situation goes.(IMHO of course)
The move to put "boots on the ground" in Mexico has been gaining momentum i think.
With the deliberate stirring of illegal immigration problems in Arizona,The Fast and Furious arming of the Sinaloa cartel,thus antagonising the war with their Zeta rivals,
This has produced scads of bodyless heads as well as other attrocities as the massacre of 172 innocent illegal aliens
who refusewd to work for the cartel.
Other massacres like the Monterrey Casino and many smaller actions with lesser but no less serious caualty lists.
We already have drone over flights of the US/Mex border do we not?
It looks to me like there is a definate rampming up of this "crisis"in measured steps.

taken from many different angles it would seem there is a lot of hypocracy involved in the actions of many of the players to date...CIA, DEA,Feds,FBI and BATF.
The war on drugs has resulted in an endless round of casualty lists, of tortured, dead, wounded, and dismembered bodies.
I cant help but wonder how many of the dead and wounded would have been spared if there was a more enlightened policy towards even cannabis at higher goverment and legislative levels.
It makes sense that the decriminalisation fo that alone would give the LEOs the added resources to effectively deal with more destructive drugs which have far higher social costs.
Not only would this empty needed prison space for real criminals,(allowing society to get tough on criminals that are real enemies of society.)It would forgo branding otherwise law abiding people with felony records that will hamper them for life.
This is part of the social outcasting of those who use it and thus limiting their ability to alter goverment policy yet another sneaky way.(Ive seen calls to not allow felons to vote, by extemists)
At any rate, not wanting to be attacked as a NORML shill, i merely suggest an alternative to negotiating amnesty with hardened murderers as some maxican politicians have advocated.
This would be a fatal mistake i think for all of us.As would interfering in Mexicos soveriegnty to combat a problem that is partly aggravated by our own goverment agencies.As well as our appetites for the illicit drugs.


OOOOOOPs my bad yer not daddy are you?

Or he could suggest repeal of prohibition and watch the cartels disappear virtually overnight.

I guess it's better to appear tough rather than intelligent when you're a right-wing politician.

Wait...i thought they WERE involved. Does he mean to try to prevent, rather than support the drug ops? LOL, yeah, right.

I know of several ops in which a person I know was a medic while running ops to prevent losing control of drug areas in Costa Rica. Black ops type stuff. I only believe him because of the severity of his PTSD.

I'm am not the most familiar with covert OPS and the like, but hasn't our military been involved for years, DEA and the like? And our government will not do the easiest things such as securing the border and ID'ing all immigrants?
keeps our government funded by not fixing the situation. Many FBI/DEA/NARC's would be unemployeed, along with our prison system if it was stopped at our doorstep.

This is actually our longest and costliest war.And ironically our biggest failure buy spending billions over the decades with nothing accomplised.Throw in Afghan/Iraq and more billions in the #ter.God save us from these knucle draggers in DC and stop the wars!

A failure, this Drug War? A roaring success. There is a global network of drug traffic control in place that keeps billions, if not trillions, of dollars (and other currencies) changing hands, being laundered, and going into the unidentified coffers that keep this world turning.

The Taliban puts an end to poppy production in Afghanistan, US troops go in to restore the trade. A well-known family with ties in South America and to the black underground establish cocaine as the drug-in-trade after the end of war in Southeast Asia and the opium trade dies out for US interests there. Later improved methods of making methamphetamine help make that drug the drug of choice for the party and club scene, that same family is there to boost that drug of choice and move the production center closer to the world's biggest consumer, the US. How can anyone say it has not been successful and adapting itself to changing times and preferrences? After all, it is NOT about eliminating drug trade but controlling it, and with military might to back-up every move.

OK, I am sitting here in Mexico, have not even been to the US since the Drug War started here in earnest. There have been changes seen on the streets, in the media, and effecting the way the police and military agencies interact with the people here - no one is above suspicion, we all get shaken down if we travel and cross a checkpoint. I have never seen the cartel folks but I sure see the police getting interested in every aspect of our lives here.

It is no secret that the US government is already here, here with their special forces advisors calling the shots. The authorities go after the top heads so that multiple others grow back in their place each fighting for their own turf, each paying their cut to those that can let their goods get across the border. It is no secret that US agencies have been arming and training THE CARTEL CRIMINALS! And that is just what got out of the bag, the tip of the iceberg. Other US agencies cut deals with those factions to get their goods to market north of the border, taking their own cut of the black action. Sounds fantastic but this is how it is, it is on-record.

Political and governmental intervention into sovereign states, citizens' livingrooms, and many aspects of living life today is ushered cheerfully in by the people who have been touched by the finagalings of these traffic-controlling factions. The people trade their freedoms for a promise of "protection" mafia-style by those who bust into their livingrooms during sloppily-planned raids.

Watching the media and people's reactions to the events being contrived down here it is rather obvious the US intends to make a bigger presence here in Mexico when they can convince everyone the time is right. When, 2012? Sooner? TS will HTF soon, I'm afraid. That will not be good for Mexico - who did not have these kinds of problems before this Drug War was elevated here with Merida Initiative funding and US advisors. It will not b good for the folks in the US that will be welcoming in their new brothers down here in a new US territory.

Most all of you have convinced me that is what you want, to invade Mexico for our own good. I'm just waiting for it. You all should have made it a done deal by the end of our Mayan calendar. Not sure the exact date but soon, no?