Clinton: U.S. Drug Policies Failed, Fueled Mexico's Drug War

Washington Post (compost) ^ | 3-25-09 | Washington Post Staff Writer mary beth sheridan

[THE_RAIDER]

MEXICO CITY, March 25 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Mexico on Wednesday with a stark mea culpa, saying that decades of U.S. anti-narcotics policies had been a failure and contributed to the explosion of drug violence south of the border.

"Clearly what we've been doing has not worked," Clinton told reporters on her plane at the start of her two-day trip. "It is unfair for our incapacity to have effective policies" on curbing drug use, narcotics shipments and the flow of guns "to be creating a situation where people are holding the Mexican government and people responsible. That's not right."

[THE_RAIDER]

Aren't they suppose to work for us??????????????

[clamper1797]

Clinton’s right on this one ...

[Brilliant]

Our goal was to control it in the US—not Mexico. That’s their problem.

[Tarpon]

I suppose if you let Venezuela ship drugs to America direct it would cut down the violence in Mexico.

[mylife]

Perhaps 50 years of liberal culture saying drugs are no big deal is the problem.

Now drug culture is pervasive.

[THE_RAIDER]

this is just another way to attack the 2nd amendment for the protection of the USA. I see right thru this.

[mylife]

I tend to agree.

I can see troops in our streets and gun restrictions on the American people right around the corner if we aren’t careful

[SENTINEL]

Roger Clinton, ~1990 After snorting Coccain on video...

"You should see my brother, he has a nose like a hoover vacuum."

[SENTINEL]

...Cocaine...

[43north]

I just love it when dims travel to sh!thole countries and tell them that the bad old USA is the cause of their problems, don’t you?

That’s OK though. The way 0 is going we’ll soon be a sh!thole country too. That’s the dim plan.