Posted on 08/11/2007 7:18:36 AM PDT by Amerigomag
Imagine if our country were so ravaged by drug cartels that the president sent the military into a third of the states to break the terror. That's where Mexico is today. We all pay the price.
Narcotraficante infighting took over 3,000 lives in Mexico last year as the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels struggled for turf. With government officials and police officers facing the old choice of "silver - or lead," out-of-control corruption plagued the country.
Entire states fell under the influence of the drug lords. Narco-violence spread to previously safe regions, such as Monterrey. By late 2006, Mexico faced its gravest internal crisis since the Revolution of 1910.
In response, Mexicans elected a tough president, Felipe Calderon. And President Calderon took action, ordering the army into nine states and deploying troops to cities such as Tijuana and the run-down resort of Acapulco.
But the drug lords are fighting back. Today, the level of violence transcends mere crime. Mexico faces a narco-insurrection. And its government needs help.
The Bush administration is working with Calderon's team to craft a counter-drug aid package that would provide surveillance equipment, transport aircraft and training. The program could be announced when the leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada meet in Quebec on Aug. 20. The finalized program will probably cost several hundred million dollars.
For their part, the drug lords aren't stupid. They've taken a lesson from Islamist extremists and they're already playing the human-rights card with gullible gringos - blaming the Mexican army for civil-rights violations while narco henchmen chop off heads, assassinate journalists and gun down honest cops and straight pols.
Thanks to his crusade against the narcos, President Calderon is himself a prime candidate for assassination. Help him, and we help ourselves.
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Do that first on our southern border!!! Then tell the corrupt third world leaders, Mexico primarily, that we may help them clean up their mess if they will stop the invasion of our country by their people. The Mexican government, including Bush's buddy Felipe, still strongly oppose any effort to control our border. That has to stop.
Build the damn fence! What’s the matter with our government?
FLASH!!! Mexico’s corrupt!
Quick! Raise taxes.
Growing empires never put fences on their borders. Waste of time. If we are truly satisfied with our “lot” and are going on defense, the good times are over. I already live in a world 50% hispanic. It’s a fait accompli my mayor will be hispanic in 5 years. Why are we stopping short of the prize. I would think defending the Guatamalan Mexico frontier is a lot easier than Mexico USA. And Panama Columbia even easier! Think big.
Or think this way. You know the old bumper sticker “I owe I owe, so off to work I go”. Well we owe. Our debt is unserviceable in the blink of a Chinese Premier’s eye. We owe we owe so off to expand our empire we are going to be forced to go.
One has to wonder whether the narco cartels, with their billion-dollar drug businesses, haven't corrupted some of our own politicians.
Why would politicians like Kyl and Graham kick their own base of supporters in the teeth? Why the push for a "virtual" fence nonsense instead of a real fence?
Do our "open borders" politicians really just put cheap lettuce over all other considerations, including the will of the American people, or is there more to the story?
And yeah we get that the avg freeper is that rugged western individualist, the best thing that could happen is a market collapse, gold blah blah. But even tough guys get tired of shooting at kids to get off their lawn.
I think it might help if millions of Americans were not buying billions of dollars worth of drugs from them.
But...I was hoping to bring back the Republic...
I am quite curious. How will conquering more of the world help us service our debt? When we invade, we don't loot, we rebuild infrastructure. Not to mention that anywhere we're likely to invade has little worth looting.
Also, exactly how are the Chinese going to collect their money if they insist on repayment? And what would doing so do to the Chinese economy?
Split the money 50/50.
This boil will come to a head pretty fast, imo.
Yes, but.
Just as in California schools, the percentage of native, US citizens verses those that are a consequence of illegal immigration from Mexico is shifting rapidly. Supplying displaced Mexicans in the US will soon become the principal aim of the Mexican narco cartels.
US immigration policy, essentially unchanged since the 19th century, allowed for a steady, 15%, Hispanic component of California's population until WWII and then exploded as a consequence of Reagan's presidency.
Today, Hispanic surnames compromise over 50% the live births in California, almost 40% of the California's school age population and the Hispanic surname demographic consumes a plurality of its public safety budget.
You actually have some very good points from an historical perspective. Will be interesting to see if history ultimately repeats itself in a new way.
Also, exactly how are the Chinese going to collect their money if they insist on repayment? And what would doing so do to the Chinese economy?
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AFAIK the Chinese cannot demand repayment , they are entitled to interest payments only until the bonds become due... they could sell the bonds of course which would depress prices and raise interest rates but we would print all the money necessary to buy them back knowing that we’re getting a bargain basement price...
It creates a larger population and resource bloc. Europe follows America’s lead only as far as it benefits Europe. We have an alliance with Europe but that alliance could be broken. In such a case we would be better off representing a population and territory power on par with any other major bloc such as Europe, Eurasia and Asia. We have also forgone vigorous reproduction as we have gained materially. Hispanic people are a perfect group to assimilate seeing as they are overwhelmingly traditional christian in their female outlook and that’s all that matters. Men will follow.
I sure as hell would prefer to assimilate Hispanics than Algerians.
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