Posted on 01/14/2009 5:50:59 PM PST by Kaslin
Security: A new Pentagon forecast warns that Mexico is so embattled by drug lords it could rapidly collapse. The study says the only other state so threatened is Pakistan. This ought to be a wake-up call about U.S. priorities.
Vicious traffickers plaguing its border cities have a good chance of taking over the nation. If the worst happens, it will have major implications for the U.S. It's time to pay attention now.
In its assessment of worldwide security threats, known as the "Joint Operating Environment," or JOE 2008 report, the United States Joint Forces Command warns that Mexico and Pakistan face the possibility of a "rapid and sudden" collapse.
"The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs and drug cartels. How that international conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of the Mexican state. Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone," the report said.
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Then we’ll have the Medellin Cartel’s Colombia on our southern border.
Maybe they should put the motto, “Last one out, turn out the lights” on their peso.
Take away the profit-—problem solved.
The cartels were beheading each other, citizens and taking vacationers hostage.
It needs to be fixed and last I heard Mexico was changing a direction by going after the assets of the drug cartels.
Didn’t know they were fighting one. Does anyone else know?
I swear I’ve come to feel the results of legalizing the drugs couldn’t do more harm than we’re seeing with the current system. It might be worse, but at least it wouldn’t be so violent.
Am I wrong? If so please feel free to educate me.
Thanks!
Uribe is doing a pretty good job of battling the FARC, ELN and the drug traffickers in Colombia. (Too bad the Liberals don’t want us to continue helping them. Too bad the liberals will not support honest trade with Colombia.)
Calderón could learn from the Uribe....and we had BETTER learn to support Mexico if Calderón decides to get tougher.
Maybe they’ll start launching rockets into San Diego.
Headline?
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Up to 40 million new voters expected
If we do that, we'll end up with a bunch of pothead high school and college students. Wait a second.....
So what’s the difference in that AND having to commit violent crimes to support the addiction? I’m not being cocky here, honest. Do we know how many more addicts there would be if it were not for the drug law/war?
The things I hear on both sides of the discussion are the same things that were being said when they wanted to do away with prohibition.
I am really up in the air on this one. Thankfully I am not the one who has to make the decision. One day I feel one way, another I feel the other. Maybe it’s on of those things for which there simply is no solution?
I come from a long family line of alcoholics and prescription drug abusers. I am scared to death of anything that has the potential for addiction. So much so that when I had my hip replacement surgery I went straight from the morphine pump to propoxyphene, skipping completely the stronger pain killers.
“Then we’ll have the Medellin Cartel’s Colombia on our southern border.”
My Grandfather always said look for a positive no matter how bad things are. Well I found it in that mess..
The War on Drugs would be easier?
The ONLY solution to the problem. There will ALWAYS be a demand. Ramp up the supply to devalue the profits.
Pile it as high as an elephants eye, on every street corner. Let em try to sell something given away for free!
Of course the morticians will be busy for a few weeks from the ODs, but after that things will calm waaay down.
There was a guy (expert) on Lou Dobbs earlier tonight implying that Mexico could be on the verge of imploding. I missed the segment...maybe someone else can summarize?
Sounds like the Pentagon wants to invade Mexico. Super bad idea!!!!
Even CBS finally admits Mexico is about ready to come apart.
There is a video at the link of a report they did last week.
THE WAR NEXT DOOR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151549/posts
[snips]“How do you begin to understand that so many people are dying in Mexico? More than 5,000 casualties because of “narcotrafficking.” That’s more than all of the American troops that have died fighting an actual war in Iraq.”
One grisly new tactic is beheadings. A headless corpse hung above a busy highway almost two hours before police covered it with a sheet - the head found in a nearby park.
In Tijuana, nine men were decapitated last month, three of them policemen, their badges stuck in their mouths - some of the 40 murders in Tijuana occurred in just one weekend.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/16/eveningnews/main4672172.shtml
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/americans-kidnapped-mexican-border-towns
“Last year alone,(2007) at least 26 San Diego County residents were kidnapped and held for ransom just miles from the U.S. border in the Mexican towns of Tijuana, Rosarito Beach and Ensenada. The FBI says many victims get beaten, tortured or raped and some are murdered.
In the past five days of 2009, the number of deaths in Mexico linked to organized crime, particularly drug trafficking, has risen to 63. At least 12 crimes per day have occurred and in the past few hours, 24 assassinations have been reported throughout the country.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2160321/posts
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