Recently Secretary of State Clinton visited Mexico for what was believed to be talks about Mexico’s exploding drug trade violence.
She was to meet Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa in Guanajuato and then speak with President Felipe Calderon.
Calderon reportedly ordered attacks on ‘drug cartels‘ using the Mexican Army starting in 2006.
Five years later, there is an increasing flood of refugees crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. Unlike the heady years when Ronald Reagan and William Clinton were in offices the people making the desperate crossing carrying few goods and even infants are not seeking a better life in the United States - they are trying to save their life by escaping from war ravaged Mexico.
These people are not immigrants - they are refugees and must be returned to their nation under international law after their country is stabilized.
Using the Mexican military turned out to be a very bad idea.
Weapons, training and ammunition - much of it supplied by the United States are involved. It is not clear what the Mexican Army is doing.
"Certainly this is a national security threat." State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was reported to have said about the situation.
"One of the key elements of sovereignty in any context is a monopoly on the use of violence.“, he continued, "These international criminal organizations -- they have assets and weapons and people that certainly can challenge any security force."
When can our Army leave Afghanistan and clean up Mexico?
She was to meet Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa in Guanajuato and then speak with President Felipe Calderon.
Calderon reportedly ordered attacks on ‘drug cartels‘ using the Mexican Army starting in 2006.
Five years later, there is an increasing flood of refugees crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. Unlike the heady years when Ronald Reagan and William Clinton were in offices the people making the desperate crossing carrying few goods and even infants are not seeking a better life in the United States - they are trying to save their life by escaping from war ravaged Mexico.
These people are not immigrants - they are refugees and must be returned to their nation under international law after their country is stabilized.
Using the Mexican military turned out to be a very bad idea.
Weapons, training and ammunition - much of it supplied by the United States are involved. It is not clear what the Mexican Army is doing.
"Certainly this is a national security threat." State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was reported to have said about the situation.
"One of the key elements of sovereignty in any context is a monopoly on the use of violence.“, he continued, "These international criminal organizations -- they have assets and weapons and people that certainly can challenge any security force."
When can our Army leave Afghanistan and clean up Mexico?
No comments:
Post a Comment