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[QUOTE="Lonelynight"]it would put too much stress on the infrastructure of developed cities. It will also cause massive social problems. worlock77
Mexico's drug war has started to spread to the United States. Hoping that this issue will just go away if we turn a blind eye to it is a very dangerous policy.
www.cato.org/policy-report/mayjune-2009/mexicos-drug-war-growing-crisis-our-southern-border
As bad as it is in Mexico, the violence is no longer affecting just Mexicans. U.S. tourism, particularly in the border cities, is dropping rapidly. The State Department warned American travelers in May 2008 that battles between drug-trafficking gangs (and between those gangs and the Mexican military and police) in portions of northern Mexico were so severe that they constituted small unit combat operations.
The violence is spilling across the border into the United States. American citizens, including law enforcement personnel, have been targeted by the drug cartels for assassination. There was an ABC television news segment recently about the more than 300 kidnappings in Phoenix last year, the majority of those involving Mexican drug cartels. Mexican drug cartels now operate in most of the large cities in the United States.
Alarm in the United States is rising. That has generated, I believe, some extreme analysis, including the thesis that Mexico might become a full-blown failed state. Texas and other southwestern states are developing contingency plans in case that happens. It is unlikely that the violence will reach such a level, yet that possibility cannot be ruled out. At the beginning of the decade I estimate that Mexico had perhaps a 1 in 100 chance of becoming a failed state. Today, the odds are more like 1 in 20.
The war on drugs has worked out so well hasn't it?
So we should just let these people do what they like?
*NSFW pics*
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/11/factbox-worst-atrocities-in-mexicos.html
At this point what can be done other than to throw out one liners? Just give up? Allow actions like this to go completly unchecked? I honestly don't know, but doing nothing and just standing by while this happens is no solution.
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