'More will die': Mexico drug wars claim US lives
source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42232161/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts?GT1=43001
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And here are our military FUNDING, troops and soldiers, equipment, leadership, and strategies being pissed away in Afghanistan, iraq and Libya...
Instead, they should be securing the international border between the U.S. and Mexico.
The majority of drugs coming into the U.S. come through points of legal entry--meaning that there are American border-crossing staff who are probably on the take.
We need to get our soldiers HOME, where they can take their off time at home without having to fly 24 hours to get there.
It is the Fed's responsibility to secure our borders. Indeed, states don't have the rights to do it.
I believe the Mexican violence associated with fighting for drug turf in the U.S., and the U.S. government's unwillingness to DO IT'S FREAKING JOB and secure the Mexican border, is behind Arizona's decision to allow their citizens to pack and carry weapons.
This violence oozing across our border is something that has been building for over a decade. Cormac McCarthy wrote about it in his book "No Country for Old Men" (which was made into a move).
Yet our government wastes our resources in the Middle East and now Libya, where the only thing we are doing, besides getting our soldiers slaughtered, is decreasing our standing in the rest of the world, and INCREASING our chances of being attacked by terrorists here at home.
- 1 year ago
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PoliticalAmazon
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ptr23
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PoliticalAmazon:
I couldn't agree with you more in terms of the lack of attention to the US-Mexico drug turf wars receives. I think it is so incredibly hypocritical that we are on the other side of the world to fight terrorism yet we won't fight the terrorism on our own soil? How can the US-Mexico drug turf war issues not be considered terrorism? Are there not innocent people from both countries losing lives? Communities being taken over by extremist regimes? US security forces being attacked? Our citizens being affected by the drugs that come into our country? Our economy being affected by the drugs and violence? What was all the the Bush rhetoric of fighting terrorism over there so that we don't have to fight it here? One thing that gets me is the whole classification of terrorism. From what I have seen it only seems to be deemed as terrorism if it comes from an Muslim country or persons of Muslim faith. It's amazing how the term terrorism/terrorist would never be associated with Christians/Christianity. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if Mexico had oil wealth we would be fighting there, or if Mexico was a Muslim country the drug cartels acts would be classified as terrorism.
- 1 year ago
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ptr23
