Mexican Meltdown: America’s Most Imminent Threat

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Mexican Meltdown: America’s Most Imminent Threat

by Bay Buchanan

Posted 02/09/2009 ET

The escalating brutality south of our border has now caught the attention of a branch of the Defense Department, if not our President. The U.S. Joint Forces Command based in Norfolk, Va., has just completed an assessment of the world’s most significant security threats. The intelligence report concludes: “two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico.”

If the Mexican government were to fail and collapse into chaos, it “could represent a homeland security problem of immense proportions to the Untied States.” According to the report, Mexico’s “government, its politicians, police, and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs and drug cartels.”

Former drug czar General Barry McCaffrey describes the situation: "The outgunned Mexican law enforcement authorities face armed criminal attacks from platoon-sized units employing night vision goggles, electronic intercept collection, encrypted communications, fairly sophisticated information operations, sea-going submersibles, helicopters and modern transport aviation, automatic weapons, RPG's, Anti-Tank 66 mm rockets, mines and booby traps, heavy machine guns, 50 cal sniper rifles, massive use of military hand grenades, and the most modern models of 40mm grenade machine guns."

Last year, the drug war claimed over 6,616 lives. And it isn’t just the bad guys who are dying. In December, a police chief and eight soldiers were found decapitated in the state of Guerrer. Last month in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, the Police Commander Martin Castro was decapitated and his head was found in a cooler outside the police station. A calling card of the local drug cartel was enclosed.

According to one reporter, “The border cities of Juarez and Tijuana wake up each morning to find streets littered with mutilated, often headless bodies. Some victims are dumped outside schools. Most are wrapped in a cheap blanket and tossed into an empty lot.”

“There is a new and different violence in this war," said Victor Clark Alfaro, the founder of the Binational Center for Human Rights. "Each method is now more brutal, more extreme than the last. To cut off heads? That is now what they like. They are going to the edge of what is possible for human beings to do."

And thanks to our wide open borders, the kidnappings, killings, and the thugs that commit them are spilling right into our country. In December, the U.S. Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center reported that Mexican gangs are the “biggest organized crime threat to the United States.” Mexican drug cartels now “control most of the U.S. drug market,” and they do so with an unimaginably sophisticated communication systems used to reach organizations in some 230 American cities.

Membership in these gangs is one million strong, and the drug lords of Mexico are major players in the U.S. crime rings in the United States. According to a recent report by National Drug Intelligence Center, “The influence of Mexican drug trafficking organizations over domestic drug trafficking is unrivaled.”

Criminal Mexican gangs are running billions of dollars worth of drugs into our country and funding violent criminal organizations in hundreds of our towns and cities. In order to keep their billion dollar enterprise thriving, the drug lords in Mexico have built powerful armies to fight one another and the Mexican government for control of that country. They could win, and Mexico could collapse into chaos.

The real crime is that for years our leaders have failed to secure the border and Americans have paid the high cost of their cowardice behavior. Now we are threatened by a foreign enemy smack on our border that is well funded, well armed, as ruthless and brutal as we have ever known. The threat is far greater than Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan has ever been -- and it is imminent.

There is no more time for baby steps designed to do nothing but give elected officials cover. Now is the time to get that fence built, supported by the most advanced technology and reinforced with America’s finest -- the U.S. Marines.

President Obama can talk about change, limit salaries of Wall Street executives, and visit charter schools all he wants, but if he fails to secure this nation now, he will be out of office in four years wishing he had half the reputation of Jimmy Carter.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30602

[Heracles 417]

What excuse do you think we'll hear this time from the usual mob?

It's a bloody joke that this is going on next door and is starting to occur in our own backyard yet we are not doing anything.

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In order to keep their billion dollar enterprise thriving, the drug lords in Mexico have built powerful armies to fight one another and the Mexican government for control of that country. They could win, and Mexico could collapse into chaos.

Related: U.S. military report warns 'sudden collapse' of Mexico is possible

[pedroh 21]

like to generalize much peejay?

why don't u say mexican drug cartels.. the general mexican population is not very happy with the druglords either..

[Heracles 417]

like to generalize much peejay?

why don't u say mexican drug cartels.. the general mexican population is not very happy with the druglords either..

Um. If the Mexican government collapses than all of Mexico will fall.

[Peikko 1,575]

Hold it, if you are not careful you are going to get the 'but if the nice people just ratted out the nasty people, I wouldn't have a problem with Mexicans' argument.

[Heracles 417]

Hold it, if you are not careful you are going to get the 'but if the nice people just ratted out the nasty people, I wouldn't have a problem with Mexicans' argument.

Wow you read my mind Cleo, not..

[Ban Hammer 14,292]

The U.S. Joint Forces Command based in Norfolk, Va., has just completed an assessment of the world’s most significant security threats. The intelligence report concludes: “two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico.”

someone at jfcom is looking for more funding. been there about a dozen times. buncha backstabbing and ladder climbing going on there.

[DeadPoolX 9]

like to generalize much peejay?

why don't u say mexican drug cartels.. the general mexican population is not very happy with the druglords either..

Um. If the Mexican government collapses than all of Mexico will fall.

If the Mexican government falls, there are two likely scenarios to occur and neither of them sound promising...

1. Chaos reigns in Mexico. We then have a neighbor to the south that's highly unstable and could prove to be a threat (beyond illegal aliens) to the U.S. in some capacity.

2. With the collapse of the Mexican government (and potentially Mexico itself), the influx of illegals to the U.S. will rise dramatically.

[NickD 203]

Barely recall a history test on our historical relations with Mexico, hey, I passed it and forgot it the next day, then moved on to something else, only have a limited number of brain cells. But it was rocky to say the least and continuous. Here we go again to quote our famous president, Ronald McDonald, or whatever is name was, forgot that too.

Key problem today, is this country is a strong market for drugs, can't help but feel we have people here in authority that are getting side benefits from this trade. But as long as that market exists, whether it's Colombia, Afghanistan, or Mexico now, we will have problems. Yet another problem with Mexico, and call me a socialist is that strong division between the super rich and the super poor, not to mention a constantly corrupt government. Hey, we have that problem here too, but not as pronounced. Well, at least not as obvious, we are far more discreet.

For our corporations, Mexico was a haven, with labor rates of five bucks per day, toxic waste, hell just dump that on the streets, but now can get the same thing from China for a buck a day. If you think our good will ambassadors are in Washington, think again, it's these corporations.

Will building a Berlin wall work? Check history.

[almaty 19]

chicken little said.." the sky is falling"

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Barely recall a history test on our historical relations with Mexico, hey, I passed it and forgot it the next day, then moved on to something else, only have a limited number of brain cells. But it was rocky to say the least and continuous. Here we go again to quote our famous president, Ronald McDonald, or whatever is name was, forgot that too.

Key problem today, is this country is a strong market for drugs, can't help but feel we have people here in authority that are getting side benefits from this trade. But as long as that market exists, whether it's Colombia, Afghanistan, or Mexico now, we will have problems. Yet another problem with Mexico, and call me a socialist is that strong division between the super rich and the super poor, not to mention a constantly corrupt government. Hey, we have that problem here too, but not as pronounced. Well, at least not as obvious, we are far more discreet.

For our corporations, Mexico was a haven, with labor rates of five bucks per day, toxic waste, hell just dump that on the streets, but now can get the same thing from China for a buck a day. If you think our good will ambassadors are in Washington, think again, it's these corporations.

Will building a Berlin wall work? Check history.

There is wisdom in these words.

*Wisdom = common sense that many chicken hawks around here ignore for convenience*

[Peikko 1,575]

What I didn't know, was that Mexico is the home of some of the best vanilla. Live and learn.

[HAL 9000 96]

What I didn't know, was that Mexico is the home of some of the best vanilla. Live and learn.

And cacao!

Maybe we should make chocolate illegal and see the narcos switch to trafficking for us all that sweet glory.

[Heracles 417]

What I didn't know, was that Mexico is the home of some of the best vanilla. Live and learn.

And cacao!

Maybe we should make chocolate illegal and see the narcos switch to trafficking for us all that sweet glory.

Maybe we should send you so you can teach them about cause and effect. Then we can send PD so he can educate them in general.