Posted on 03/26/2009 1:55:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – The Mexican government is not on the verge of collapse, the top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, seeking to tamp down increasing alarm over the powerful and violent drug cartels operating in the country that is the United States' southern neighbor.
"Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state," said National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair at his first news conference Thursday.
Echoing the assessment of Mexico's leaders, Blair said the dramatic increase in killings in Mexico is a result of that government's crackdown on drug cartels.
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You’re thinking creatively and completely outside the box.
You must be flamed. Immediately and without mercy. :-)
In reality, we’ve already inherited a large chunk of northern Mexico’s social ills anyway. We might as well get the benefits of having those areas as part of the U.S. Keep in mind that Texas, New Mexico, California, and Arizona were all part of Mexico at one time. I’d say they did pretty well. No reason to think the northern states of Mexico wouldn’t get there over time if they joined up.
Yeah, it would cost us a mint in welfare and policing costs in the short term, but as I said....we’re already paying a large part of that bill right now.
You are on to the situation. The government in Mexico City will not collapse but may have de facto lost control of the north.
Anybody got that Bagdad Bob thingy goin...?
I’ll bet 100 pesos that Mexico folds before Christmas!
Actually no...
I am concerned about the after effects...Not about the actual collapse and failure...
There is nothing we can do about that...
If someone comes up with an idea to “stimulate” Mexico, I am going to puke buckets...
An added bonus is that the culture of northern Mexico is more or less the same as that here in Texas, at least as far as music, food, etc. goes. Add to that the huge number of cross-border families and I think the integration would go fairly well.
People who don’t know much about Mexico think that the whole country is the same from coast to coast. What they don’t realize is that Mexico is as diverse as the U.S. in some ways. Oaxaca differs from, say, Monterrey in the same way that West Virginia differs from Dallas. (Monterrey is sort of the “Dallas” of Mexico.) Thinking of Mexico as nothing but one big Tijuana or Juarez is like assuming all of America is like Las Vegas or Detroit.
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