Destroy the “Made in USA” stuff so the money goes into the hands of some Mexican gangster.
Bush and his Cartel of idiots.
Politicians come and go. The career bureaucrats, like Walters, that inhabit the beltway are much better entrenched. I think overall they are responsible for, and contribute to the problem more than the politicians.
The drug war has gotten messy enough to be controversial, and the bureaucracy lets them keep it at arm's length. "At arm's length" is generally the posture that affords the least amount of control.