U.S. Military Doing ‘Limited’ Drug War Work In Mexico

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US troops at war in Mexico
From a friend:

Mark,

In case you didn’t catch this:

“Are you saying that (Mexican President Felipe) Calderon has expressed an openness toward a uniformed, U.S. military presence within Mexico?”

“Yes,” Napolitano .

Troop levels and “los raids” (as they’re being obliquely referred to in the Press) have just jumped in Mexico City. What I heard today: “The security of Mexico is now in the hands of the United States.”

This would seem to be what started in Cuidad Juarez.

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U.S. Military Doing ‘Limited’ Drug War Work In Mexico, Napolitano Says

“Our military, in certain limited ways, has been working with the Mexican military in their efforts against the drug cartels” inside Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told NPR’s Robert Siegel this morning. Her comments were among the most extensive to date from a U.S. official about the U.S. military’s role in the drug war raging across the border.

During a conversation about the visit to Mexico yesterday by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Napolitano and other top U.S. officials, Robert asked “is there any role, any potential role, for the U.S. military south of the border in Mexico?’

Napolitano said that since Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen were among those in the delegation that went to Mexico yesterday, “you can deduce from that that there are discussions about the proper role for our military.”

http://markcrispinmiller.com/2010/03/us-troops-at-war-in-mexico/

[tekisui]

1. Goddamit, US soldiers everywhere.

How is this not a huge story?

[Romulox]

2. Mexico as the new Vietnam?

Notice the unrelently "logic" that propels us from one murderous riot to the next...

I've come to the conclusion that war is a function of excess population. Nothing more subtle; there are too many of us. :shrug:

[City Lights]

3. Ugh!

:argh:

You wanna stop the drug cartels? LEGALIZE the shit, now!

[Ozymanithrax]

4. At least they are correct in the assumption that what happens to Mexico affects us.

It would be easier and cheaper to legalize most drugs and find a way to effectively manage their use. I think it isn't a good thing, but it will drastically lower the body count in Mexico that we Americans are responsible for because we have to have our illegal narcotics.

[ixion]

5. just 'bleepin' ducky

:argh:

[Renew Deal]

6. Mexico is a legitimate and serious problem for the US

The violence is sometimes just across the border and sometimes in the US. This includes Americans that work in Mexico and Mexican-Americans that go back. I don't think we can afford to have Mexico completely fall apart.

[Greyhound]

8. Kinda misses the whole point, don't you think?

The problem is directly caused by US, the thugs are financed by us, and the never-ending escalation is driven exclusively by US.

So sending our troops into yet another nation, whose people know all too well how trustworthy we are, can make it better? So when the cartels start blowing up convoys and troop quarters, assassinating off-duty "advisers", and the body count rises, we can look forward to send our kids to die for corporate profits closer to home.

[frylock]

9. the answer is not to throw more troops and more ca$h at the problem..

the same shit was happening during prohibition.

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7. Bump

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10. Bump