[AngelesCrestHighway]

After the wall is built, I don’t give a rats ass what happens in Mexico!....

[djsherin]

We really just need to secure the border. Good thing we have 2 candidates willing to do that!

...Oh wait.

[Mamzelle]

Let me think--picture McCain (from ARIZONA) in the WH. Picture Obama in the WH.

Suppose an aggressive push by conservatives to draw attn to this and get some action tried to shame the WH into doing something.

I believe it'd be easier to nudge Obama into action than McCain. McCain would be too distracted with "Now's my chance to deliver another kick to my base!".

Obama could be thrown on the defensive.

Here is another reason I'm not eager to vote for McCain.

[subterfuge]

The worsening situation in Mexico, despite its barbarity, breadth of murder, kidnappings, and corruption, is not resonating in the American psyche

So what?

IBTZ

[raybbr]

Here, let me get it started...

[BuffaloJack]

Build the fence. Now.

[GQuagmire]

Careful newbie.
Old Sarge...Sniff,sniff

[RJL]

Mexican Worsening Situation not on American "Front Burner"

Bush desperately wants to help by sending Mexico $1 Billion that will be split up by the corrupt government officials and ruling families.

Sadly, regular Americans aren't excited about further financing Mexico's already rich elite.
/S

[livius]

I don’t think Mexico is on the verge of a coup, but there are major problems there. The left is hard at work, and Hugo is lusting over Mexico and obviously has no fear of either Mexico or us. Notice how he seized a Mexican cement plant last week with nary a peep from the US. This is the first Latin American company he has seized, and he did it because he felt he could get away with it. And he did.

We have to get working and support Mexico and in fact, we need an effective Latin American alliance of democracies that would be similar to NATO but more aggressive and effective.

We also have to keep up our support for the anti-drug programs, because the alliances between the narcos and the left are crucial to supporting “revolution” throughout Latin America. These alliances have critically destablized Mexico. When we got control of them in Colombia, despite the opposition of the Dems, this was what enabled the Colombian government to restore stability and sanity to their country.

There are many people on FR who hate Mexico, and pop their little heads up and stick their tongues out any time the country is metioned. But they should grow up and realize that Mexico in particular and Latin America in general are crucial to our security.

[JerseyHighlander]

How long are the moderators going to let this guy agitate on this forum?

[3AngelaD]

Welcome to our forum. We usually include a link to the original story, or indicate that we wrote an item ourselves (we call that a vanity.) I will repost what I posted yesterday when someone else offered the same prediction:

If there is a coup, it will be the narco traficantes taking over. Right now they are seriously challenging the government for control of several large areas of Mexico. There have been 800 people killed in the state of Chihuahua so far this year. Sinaloa is iffy. As easy as it is to criticize Calderon and the Mexican government, a narco state would be a thousand times worse, and the rest of the Mexican population would have an even better reason to immigrate here — legally or otherwise. Of course, Chavez encourages the drug trafficking because he hates the Mexicans (he nationalized the Mexican cement giant Cemex this week) and because he believes drugs weaken the Unites States. He might get more than he bargained for, however, if the narcos turn on him, as well.

[Reaganez]

What an absolute crock of shit.

There will be martial law in Washington DC before it happens in Mexico.

[Jim Noble]

I have said for a long time that we need a Mexico policy.

Right now, I have no idea what it is. I think we should probably annex the northern states, militarize a defensible line from Veracruz to Acapulco, and let the rest go to hell, but YMMV.