War with Mexico

According to a recent report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, Mexico is in danger of a "rapid and sudden collapse" due to criminal gangs and drug cartels.

Before packing his bags and leaving DC, ex-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the U.S. has a plan if violence from the bad guys spills across the border.

The U.S. military would be sent to hot spots along the southern border (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California) to backup the Border Patrol and local law enforcement.

Not a bad idea. The scumbag Mexican drug smugglers and "coyotes" funneling illegal aliens and drugs across the border might have second thoughts when they run up against a couple of U.S. combat divisions backed up by main battle tanks and attack helicopters.

This all sounds good but with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid OPR gang in charge it's doubtful that such action would ever be taken. Besides, the OPR gang wants to grant blanket amnesty to illegal aliens and scrap plans to secure the border. The Bush administration was also pushing for "comprehensive" immigration reform but failed to get it past Congress. Sen. McCain was a fan of the plan but backed off after an outcry from the public.

Many Americans believe Mexico "collapsed" several years ago. Mexico has to be one of the most corrupt places on the planet. The billions of taxpayers dollars sent to the Mexican government over the years might just as well have been poured down a rat hole for all the good it has done.

According to the report over 5,300 Mexican citizens, including law enforcement officials have been gunned down, many beheaded, by the bad guys in the past year alone. That's more than the U.S. has lost in the Iraq/Afghanistan War in over five years of fighting. Sure sounds like a war to me.

The last time a couple of Border Patrol officers tried to stop a Mexican drug smuggler they wound up in prison with long prison terms. BP Officers Ramos and Compean shot a fleeing drug smuggler in the rear end and US Attorney Johnny Sutton railroaded them into prison based on the drug smugglers testimony. Fortunately, Bush commuted their sentence in his final day in office. They should have been pardoned. At least Sutton has probably lost his job now that the OPR gang is in charge.

I wonder what would happen if an American GI shot a heavily armed member of the Mexican drug cartel smuggling drugs across the border. I can see the headlines now: GI charged with murder for shooting a poor, defenseless, Mexican drug smuggler. Those nasty, old American soldiers killing those poor Mexicans.

Let's face it, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has failed to wrest control from the drug cartels and restore some semblance of law and order in the country. Much of the violence is right on the U.S. Mexican border and becoming more frequent on the U.S. side. As "Dingy" Harry Reid would say "the war is lost."

Most of the liberal U.S. media blames the flow of firearms into Mexico from the United States as the cause for the takeover by the drug cartels. In other words it's the U.S. that is at fault for the problems in Mexico. That's baloney. The bad guys in Mexico can buy military weaponry from any number of sources, including Red China and other rogue nations. Military weapons are routinely stolen from the Mexican military and law enforcement or bought from them.

Aside from a totally corrupt Mexican government, the demand for drugs, not firearms, is what has fueled the Mexican drug trade and led to a breakdown of law and order.

Sadly, America is awash in illegal drugs. Illegal drugs are in our schools, colleges, every level of government from small towns and major major cities to the nation's prisons. Kids, some as young a five, are experimenting with drugs.

The military conducts routine drug test as does law enforcement agencies. A few years ago the DEA agent of the year was caught with a $300,000 payoff from the Mexican drug cartel. Sport figures, Hollywood stars, government bureaucrats and elected officials are frequently involved in illegal drug use.

The demand for illegal drugs is one facet of the "Drug War" that the media and the government largely ignore. The number of lives ruined and lost as a result of illegal drugs smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico is any ones guess. Until that part of the war is addressed we can look forward to an increase of violence spilling across our southern border.

Should the "Mexican Drug War" result in the U.S. military being sent to the border regions the demand for illegal drugs would still be present. If the border was secured by the military and the drug smuggling significantly curtailed the demand for drugs would be even greater.

The continuing controversy over legalizing drugs is sure to be a hot topic in the new Obama administration. After all Obama admitted that he had used hard drugs before becoming the "Messiah."

In the meantime Uncle Sucker just gave Calderon another $400 million to squander. Obama met with Calderon a few days ago and promised to fight the illegal flow of U.S. weapons across the border into Mexico.

The subject of stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. was not brought up. It's not drugs stupid - it's those damn guns being smuggled into Mexico from the nasty, old United States that's causing all the problems. It's all Americas fault.