A man identified by Mexico's Attorney General's office as Jesus Zambada Garcia, known as Jesus 'The King' Zambada, sitting right, one of the top four leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, is presented to the media along with three other alleged Sinaloa cartel members, left of Garcia, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. A total of 16 Sinaloa cartel members were arrested Monday, including Garcia, after a gun battle with police, according to prosecutors. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)America’s Next Security Crisis May Be Very Close
To Home -- Westhawk
To Home -- Westhawk
How close? At the southern border.
The U.S. and Mexico obviously face a long list of old chronic conditions: unregulated migration, drug smuggling, human smuggling, weapons smuggling, economic dislocation, environmental problems, cultural clashes, etc. But these chronic maladies have yet to flare up into an urgent national security crisis, at least on the American side of the border.
But that flare up is underway on the Mexican side. Soon after he took office in 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon took a fateful decision to engage in a full crackdown of the country’s massively wealthy and well-armed drug cartels. No doubt, President Calderon had in mind the bad old days in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s, when men like Pablo Escobar were on the verge of using violence and seemingly infinite resources to completely take over the state.
President Calderon has decided to fight and Mexico in now getting a bitter taste of this war, a war that is only beginning. Now that they have seen the blood, many in Mexico are harboring doubts about the venture. Doubts lead to blame, with fingers pointing north to American. This story from Bloomberg explains:
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My Comment: From the 1980s on we have been fed a steady diet on why we must support the War on Drugs. The specter of bloodshed, kidnappings, and mass murder was never on the menu.
For Mexico .... this is the case now.
The next question that should be asked is .... when will Mexico's carnage reach our own homes.