Posted by
Bill Crawford on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:26:25 PM
Mexico's problems have been building for years. Their government structure is inept and their police and judicial systems are corrupt as hell. If you discount their tourism economy and the transfer payments wired there by immigrants working in America, they are essentially a third world country.
Now they are maturing a new signature cottage industry: gangs exporting drugs across our southern border, guarded by mercenaries that are comprised in part by Mexican military. Since we have increased border security here over the last decade, the power of these junkets have become a border horror show.
So our new Secretary of State goes down there to talk about this, and her response is to make a public statement expressing apology for it all being caused by A) our insatiable appetite for drugs and B) our export of illegal guns.
How on earth is this any sort of encouragement for them to work to solve this problem?
Even if this is all a concession required to allow us to cross border with our military and solve the problem for them, what kind of diplomatic precedent do they think self-flagellation will accomplish?