Posted on 11/12/2011 5:57:22 AM PST by Kaslin
Border: The helicopter crash Friday that killed Mexico's top Cabinet official, Jose Francisco Blake, couldn't have come at a worse time. Cartels are acquiring heavy arms to challenge the state and to move their war to the U.S.
In Mexico, Blake, the Interior Secretary, was the best hope of winning the war against the vicious cartels, who've killed as many as 86,000 people.
Blake, 45, had managed to crush the cartels and cut crime in his native Tijuana before he was asked to do the same for the country in the top Cabinet job in 2010.
He had some success — five of the top seven cartel capos were knocked off by the end of his watch.
But he's the second interior secretary killed in a helicopter crash since 2008, and that leaves a great sense of uneasiness. Mexico's currency fell on news of his death, the cause of which is still undetermined.
One thing is known: As Mexico fights, the cartels have been bulking up. They've expanded their firepower and extended their reach into the U.S. Addressing this issue should be a top U.S. policy priority. But as Mexico mourns, this war is going largely unnoticed in the U.S.
Increased firepower is just one element in this difficult war, but it's a sign of potentially worse to come.
It doesn't help that the Obama administration has allowed thousands of small arms to "walk" from the U.S. to cartel buyers in Mexico in the "Fast and Furious" operation, which seems to have been keyed to raising support for gun control in the U.S.
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It may very well be that the drug cartels’ long range goal has a lot less to do with drug distribution and more to do with international politics.
I submit that they are probably communist insurgents using drugs as a financing mechanism.
Detonating an emp device above the US to cripple or destroy it, or assisting a US enemy in doing so, is probably high among their long term agenda items.
That’s war. If the U.S. doesn’t step up its efforts to stop it, worse will come.
Too bad about the plane “accident.”
I hope that other officials fighting corruption in Mexico don’t meet with any “accidents” either.
We need a Mexico policy.
If the state fails, Islam comes next.
The US has three choices:
1) Pour hundreds of billions of dollars into Mexico to stabilize the situation.
2) Put up with the present situation, just let it happen.
3) Build a wall.
Don’t look now, but Islam is already calculating it’s next move. And that will come with the announcement of a Nuclear weapon. (Iran) Israel will likely move very soon without the USA. (OF COURSE)
#3, A wall is already there in city borders and has not worked. It will take armed troops given orders to kill anyone who crosses the border illegally.
The obvious choice will be #2. Like it always has.
I do know that the BP has apprehended a number of ME border crossers in the past few years.
Mexico unhinged bleeding into the US is what they need. Wait for the American dead, act militarily, see we fixed it and we protected the American people now we need a North American Union so this never happeneds again. Have the solution now create, support and nurture the problem
The institutional Church in Latin America has failed, catastrophically. The people there are not suited for Protestantism (please, don’t bother).
Just as NOI has gained a foothold among the most depraved in black America, Latin America is wide open for Islam.
correct.
every government has its mafia thugs to do privately what cannot be done publicly.
Such a move would go far beyond current US involvement in Mexico's drugs war.
The suggestion is also likely to irritate Mexico's government over the sensitive issue, correspondents say.
BBC Oct 1
I have come to the conclusion that Mexicans could detonate a WMD on U.S. soil and nothing would come of it.
Every administration for the last 20 years has ignored the problems coming across our southern border and done nothing about it. To this day the Dept of Homeland Security says "our borders have never been more secure", yet every Sheriff on the border is screaming about the fact that things just keep getting worse. The human rights violations that are being perpetrated inside Mexico itself would have the U.N., NATO, Amnesty International, and every other human rights group screaming for action if it was going on anywhere else in the world. I don't understand why Mexico is allowed to get away with crap that I doubt any other nation on Earth would be allowed to get away with.
Child sex trafficking, human trafficking, narcotics and drug manufacturing and trafficking, kidnapping, mass murder, slavery, wide spread corruption at the highest level of the Mexican government are all part of daily goings on in Mexico and now it's spilling across our southern borders and we do NOTHING!
Well, nothing except send guns down to Mexico to arm the cartels. That we'll do!
Mexico is not a ‘’failed state’’. In order to achieve that status it would have first had to have been a state that function based on the rule of law, had an economic infrastucture and a viable currency. Mexico has never had anything resembling this. In some 400 years it has been nothing but a crime-ridden, racist kleptocracy that has never and never will function under the rule of law. I despise Mexico and it’s people. They take a perverse national pride in their societal and criminal dysfunction and exhibit the same pugnacious racist pride in destroying our country.
Years ago, after we watched missiles raining down on Baghdad for the first time, I said Teheran should be next. Then Mexico City. It doesn’t sound so outrageous now.
Bingo! Well said.
I put it together as follows: Globalist forces are at work to institute a one world government. The United States is their main obstacle.
They have been at it patiently for many decades. They enlist any power and use any means that is useful.
Islam is useful. Communism is useful. Both want world domination, and are patient and radical about it.
The various Leftist causes and agendas in the US are useful in undermining us from within.
The undermining effects of drugs and criminality from the south are useful as well, and therefore supported in one way or another (against the will and the sovereignty of our nation) by our elected officials and unelected bureaucrats. The electoral process is controlled in such a way that the upper ranks of our leaders do not get elected unless the powers behind the scenes can use them or rely on them to put the erosion of this country at the top of their agenda.
We are all that stands in their way. Our patriotism. Our values. Our 2nd Amendment.
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