“If I were the leader of a country, and a neighboring country supplied arms to insurgents (cartels) inside my country, I would consider that an Act of War.”
Absolutely! This is the point that doesn’t get enough attention.
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Mexican officials learned of “Gunwalker” from news reports
http://www.qando.net/?p=11607
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“At no time did we know or were we made aware that there might have been arms trafficking permitted,” Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales told the Los Angeles Times in a recent interview. “In no way would we have allowed it, because it is an attack on the safety of Mexicans.”
Morales apparently found out about the deadly U.S. program by reading news reports. And she says Mexico still has not received an explanation from American officials — let alone an apology.
While reluctant to speak out before the results of pending American investigations, the chief Mexican law enforcement officer told the Times that purposefully allowing guns into the hands of Mexican cartels would be a “betrayal” of her country.
And according to Congressmen probing the gunrunning scheme such as Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), that is exactly what happened.
I see that Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales is attempting to hone his legal skills by filing extradition papers for six gun traffickers.
http://internationalextraditionblog.com/tag/mexico-seeks-extradition-of-gun-traffickers/
Baby steps. Next should be the BATF&E agents and their superiors.
Now that F&F has clearly shown the options available in the cooperative governments playbook doesn't it make you have to consider a similar technique was first applied in the drug war?
Instead of a good cop/bad cop scenario it's a concerned responsible big sis/professional victim role player thing.
How long has Mexico pointed their accusatory finger only at the American people as bearing the blame for the drug flow north? And how has the politicians responded? One not so recent plan they hatched sends money Mexico's way to ramp up military action against the malleable cartels. It seems the success of the program is that it is shaking out mostly bit players. That and it's military is being upgraded.
I am not against ending the drug blight on humanity, I'm saying that those who through the years argued the war on drugs as we know it is not what we believe it is have a better grasp on the game than most.
What happened shortly after the Obama administration took over? Someone got the idea to use that game plan against the Second Amendment and suddenly Calderon comes out swinging against the gun traffic from the North into Mexico and the executive branch jumps right on it. It's a cooperative effort and obviously not all Mexican officials have the need to know.
I'm holding to the eventual NAU introduction to mark the end game, if this F&F scandal is buried.