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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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A very well researched policy analysis by Ted Carpenter of the Cato Institute.
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While U.S. leaders have focused on actual or illusory security threats in distant regions, there is a troubling security problem brewing much closer to home. Violence in Mexico, mostly related to the trade in illegal drugs, has risen sharply in recent years and shows signs of becoming even worse. That violence involves turf fights among the various drug-trafficking organizations as they seek to control access to the lucrative U.S. market. To an increasing extent, the violence also entails fighting between drug traffickers and Mexican military and police forces.
The carnage has already reached the point that the U.S. State Department has issued travel alerts for Americans traveling in Mexico. U.S. tourism to cities on Mexico�s border with the United States, where the bloodshed has been the worst, has dropped sharply. Even more troubling, the violence is spilling across the border into communities in the southwestern United States. |
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Insidejohnmalkovich
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
Location: Pusan
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/world/americas/01juarez.html?_r=1&hp
Obama might have to send the army into Mexico instead of Afghanistan. Or more realistically, he might have to allow the CIA to train and fund death squads like the Americans used to stabilize other central American countries. <shudders> |
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sineface
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Location: C'est magnifique
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Any thoughts on moving to El Paso, then?  |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| sineface wrote: |
| Any thoughts on moving to El Paso, then? |
Apparently El Paso has the lowest crime rate of cities that size in the US. Or one of. Can't remember. |
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