Mexico's drug cartels are stepping up the violence. Senior police officers, members of their families and a judge have been assassinated in broad daylight in 2008.
Are you concerned about the drug war in Mexico?
Do you fear this might spill over into the United States? What should Washington do about it?
I worry about it. I live in San Diego CA and I can no longer feel safe at night while pub crawling in Tijuana. The Zona Roja used to rock like the Las Vegas strip: 24/7, just a few years ago.
What to do about it? It seems obvious to me as US traveler that the US drug laws themselves have created the prerequiste social setting for the violent physics as we see happening in Mexico. By applying the wrong laws to drug use in the US the government itself has recreated the 1920s-style prohibition gang wars. Only now, the money, power and violence seem much greater, wider and deeper.
Instead of doing the same thing over and over again in the USA why not decriminalize, regulate and control "drugs"? By making them illegal and imposing judicial punishment the law appears to drive the activities underground where they cannot be controlled. This is how and where crime reportedly attends drug use and drug use spawns criminality. To control something like drug use requires that it's use be visable.
To my thinking, the Dutch have the right idea. To me, they are wise government and that is probably because they have been around alot longer than the USA. They are a pragmatic and cost-sensible government who know what works to fight dangerous hard-drug use and drug-related criminality. The USA should pay immeadiate attention to that model. A dramatic move to legalization and true control is required. Typical rules of commerce should be applied in place of more police and harsher measures.
I think the USA has created and listened to their own propaganda for so long - and created laws based on propaganda - that irrationality and more of the legal status quo is all they can imagine.
This intolerable situation in Mexico, for me, recalls Shakesperian wisdom:
"Desperate means
by desperate appliance are undone,
or, not at all."
Yes I am concerned about the drug war in Mexico.
Personally, I believe we need to send in our Special Operations Forces. I.E, U.S Navy SEAL teams along with DEVGRU (Devlopment Group), U.S Army Special Forces(Green Berets) along with C.A.G (Combat Applications Group) and we need to send in a couple of Ranger chalks.
If we were to do this we as whole, Mexico and the U.S, we would completely destroy or eliminate the Narco terrorist or known as drug cartels.
Yes, very concerned. I do not understand the lack of public outcry. Do you or those you
know still use durgs? Oh, you're not a druggie...you just use it once in awhile...wrong! You are the cause of death and destruction in Mexico and elsewhere.
Why do we not hear this twist to the "war on drugs". So called "Drug Lords" cannot sell drugs to those who do not purchase them.
I'm worried about everything my famalia and my country has fought for. If we cannot see who our prioritys are for democranization. we need to help our niehbors before we help people we don't even border think about it? we are building a barrier around us. some people want to ignore the facts but it will catch up with us. all the ms 13, sur 13, los zteas, bulldogs are against democracy. we have to stand up now, and prove are ideal!
yes, but probably not as much as I should be. Drug wars in Mexico have a domino effect in the USA, even if simply because they are nearby. Not only that but our demand for illicit drugs is helping to fuel this conflict. The more fighting that goes on in Mexico, the more likely Mexicans are going to try to migrate to the US - legally or illegally. I certainly would if I lived in Juarez or some other town steeped in conflict. That of course causes other problems that snowballs into something bigger.
11/23/2008 4:14:02 PM
