Mexico's war on drugs

This week another high ranking Mexican law enforcement official key to the so-called war on drugs was bumped off http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7476682.stm . This is out of control. Has been for a while now. The power of the dope cartels next door to us eclipses their governments power to handle them.

For 20 years we've wasted money in Colombia while Mexico has become the criminal capitol of the world. News flash-the Colombians quit selling cocaine in the US a while ago. The biggest buyers of cocaine from Colombia are and have been, Mexico. The local, state, and federal police in Mexico are weak because if they aren't on the take they're outgunned. Big time. Mexico is battling the cartels now with it's military. Don't know much about the Mexican military except that they had a tough time with the impoverished Indians of Chiapas, so I don't have much faith in their ability against ruthless gangs armed with the best weapons American dope money can buy.

Mexico has various organized crime cartels all over the country but the ones right along our border are the strongest. We know that the majority of dope sold in America comes from Mexico. The fastest rising prison population in America-also Mexican. The largest and fastest growing gang in America- Sur 13-also, Mexican. Could the huge amount of NAFTA assisted dope in our country, the growing amount of imported crooks from Mexico, the growing amount or Mexican crooks in American prisons, all be related? Of course it fucking is!

This is nothing new. A hundred years ago we had border problems with Mexico. But when Pancho Villa and his compas were fucking around at the border we weren't spectators: we sent the military after his ass, even going into Mexico to do so. General Patton started his legend as a soldier in pursuit of Pancho. So why are we sitting around doing nothing about Mexico?

We've no excuse for not taking action, including vigilante action. Shit, we go into people's countries and arrest their presidents, like we did with Noriega, Saddam, etc. Latin drug dealers have a kryptonite and it's called supermax federal prison on this side of the border.