Commentary: Mexico needs our help, not our troops

[unhappycamper]

Commentary: Mexico needs our help, not our troops
By Andres Oppenheimer | The Miami Herald
Posted on Friday, September 3, 2010

The escalation of drug-related violence in Mexico — including the mass execution of 72 migrants last week — is moving a small but growing number of U.S. foreign policy hawks to call for a radical solution: send in the U.S. Army.

I'm not kidding. At first, I thought it was a joke, or the kind of overreaction that is most often confined to the blogosphere.

But, increasingly, populist local U.S. officials are seriously talking about sending in U.S. troops to end the drug-related violence that has cost 28,000 lives in Mexico over the past four years, and that occasionally spills over to the U.S. side of the border.

The U.S. military would help crack down on the drug cartels, and help stop illegal immigration and terrorism, they claim. President Barack Obama's recent decision to deploy up to 1,200 National Guard troops along the Southwest border with Mexico has obviously not pacified them.

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My opinion: Talk about sending U.S. combat troops to Mexico is crazy. You would have anti-U.S. student demonstrations starting a day later, followed by a dead protester who would immediately become a national and international martyr, followed by resurgence of leftist guerrillas, followed a cycle of violence that would lead to more bloodshed than the current war on the drug cartels.

[Swamp Rat]

1. Someday we'll need their help... and I hope they don't act like we do towards them.

[Fumesucker]

2. You say that like it was a bad thing..

You really must analyze these things from the perspective of the elites, increasing violence and chaos in Mexico is a win/win for the elites, it gives them further excuse to crack down domestically in the USA and sending the US military anywhere provides huge profits for the military, industrial, congressional complex.