Posted on 05/14/2008 10:33:14 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Diplomacy: When a neighbor's house is on fire, it makes sense to send water, not argue about building codes. Except to Democrats. As Mexico reels from its drug war, Congress is withholding critical help. It's a lethal logic.
The Merida Initiative, proposed to Congress by President Bush after consultations with Mexico last fall, is a three-year, $1.4 billion program to help Mexico wipe out drug traffickers and terrorists.
For years they've scourged Mexico, but never as now, since President Felipe Calderon dispatched 36,000 troops to fight them in 2006. Taking these barbarians on is critical to Mexico's future and an act of courage that has been shown by no other Mexican leader.
It's a hard war that Mexico has fought alone and paid big.
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Build the fence, have an anvil for the Mexicans to hammer the druglords against. Then cry 'havoc!'.
I think the left doesn’t care about anyone but themselves
I would agree if the government had any success at our own drug fights. How can you fix Mexico’s when you can’t fix our own problems? You can’t. Mexico could shut down the borders and the drugs if they wanted to.
Pissing away more money in the “War on (Some) Drugs”.
We’ll never learn.
I'd much rather spend that $Billion right here in America on the border fence.
Since it’s Mexico, have they released the Bribe/Benefit Ratio yet?
Since it’s Mexico, have they released the Bribe/Benefit Ratio yet?
When I see the Mexican military conduct effective and lasting counter-drug operations instead of running publicity stunt show of force ops while, in many cases, aiding the very drug gangs they are supposed to be after for profit- then I'll know they are serious.
In the meantime, we piss away billions of dollars to a regime that manages to fuel the problem instead of solve it? To hell with that.
The Mexican government is a parasite and we are its hosts.
Write that in your next editorial.
No way, cause the Dems are trying to STAKE the border doors open (as is McCain). But once in, the Dems are offering so much more: welfare, hospitalization, housing, blah blah blah. SO even if they do care about the drugs, they're willing to forgive that blockade.
Relieve the suffering of the masses still remaining in Mexico. Liberate the country from its cruel rulers in the cities and pervasive anarchy in the countryside, and work for the change to a regime to a more responsive form of government. Until this is achieved, annex Mexico to the US and administer it as a territory, much like Puerto Rico.
There aren’t enough honest politicians in Mexico to make it cost effective to throw money down that hole.
Relieve the suffering of the masses still remaining in Mexico. Liberate the country from its cruel rulers in the cities and pervasive anarchy in the countryside, and work for the change to a regime to a more responsive form of government. Until this is achieved, annex Mexico to the US and administer it as a territory, much like Puerto Rico.
“The Mexican government is a parasite and we are its hosts.”
Great post, well said.
Why are we sending money to one of the RICHEST countries in the world???????????
I already wrote it in this one. Why don’t you read it?
I agree. As corrupt as the Mexican government is at all levels we might just as well drop the money by parachute.
Hummmmm - wasn't that idea suggested to deliver aid to Burma? Imagine that!
I have lived 1 mile north of the U.S. Mexican border for 53 years and worked here as a Border Patrol agent and Customs officer. Believe me it is a cesspool over there. Their government is beyond help.
Depends upon what the money is being spent on.
Handing money over to the Mexicans directly, no.
If this is funding some kind of joint-force where US spec ops is coordinating Mexican military attacks on drug lords, then fine.
The point is, if you’re not careful you could be handing the money directly to the people you are trying to shut down. Remember the Zetas? Or you could be funding someone’s Swiss investment portfolio.
We shouldn’t send a dime that we can’t verify how it is being spent. I know they are touchy about their sovereignty. I also don’t care. The drug gangs are the great threat to their sovereignty. If they want our money, they should be prepared to enter into a real security relationship with us, as the Colombians have done. Its working there. It can work in Mexico. Not everyone in Mexico’s elite will want it to work. And there is your problem.
I see it as part of our effort in the war on drugs. Just as America forgave Western Europe’s war debts as part of its contribution to defeating Hitler, so should America foot part of the bill as is being proposed. Oliver Stone’s and the rest of Hollywood’s cocaine appetite is the reason it’s happening. If we don’t foot part of it, the Mexicans would have reason to say ‘why should we do all the fighting and dying when the gringos just keep buying the drugs? Maybe we should go back to doing nothing as we did in the past.’ I think it’s very important that we pitch in and help them when their house is on fire like this. Democrats just want to throw gasoline on the fire and then pat themselves on the back about it afterward.
Isn't that the goal of the North American Union? Onlly thing it is more likely to drag us down with them rather than help them.
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