All those payoffs to our politicians and government people from the Mexican government and cartels have really borne some bitter fruit!

There was a news story today about the assassination of twelve Mexican Federal Agents by one of the drug cartels that operates in and out of Mexico. This is the direct result of the corruption that has engulfed the entire ruling body in Mexico and God only knows how many of our elected officials and crooked bureaucrats have been bought and paid for. The troubles Mexico is experiencing is a direct result of the leaders of that country turning a blind eye to the cartels after being and thus signaling their underlings that this is the rule of the day.

I'm sure they thought this arrangement would go on forever, up until Felipe Calderon was elected Mexican Presidents were forever greasing the palms of our elected on their show trips to Washington DC. The most memorable in the recent past to me anyway, was the visit by Vincente Fox when he visited then 43 in an effort to convince him to leave the borders open, not to stem the flow of illegals, but to keep the usual unobstructed flow of drugs coming into the US.

Mexico has 11 thousand dead since Felipe Calderon took power and sent the military after the cartels. I don't know how much effort the US is putting into stopping the movement of drugs on this side of the border but my guess is that it isn't enough. Our borders were never beefed up adequately after 9/11 and the Border Patrol has been shorted in manpower all along in what appears to be an accommodation to the corrupt officials on the other side of the border by our corrupt officials on this side of the border. The incident that really gets me is the Fox-Bush meeting when 'W' caved on all border issues to that mustachioed weasel, I guess you might call it professional courtesy.

We need to take a most aggressive stance in the war on drugs for the first time in our history. Our DEA has never been able to adequately do it's Job and like our modern military is pulled back and the enemy allowed to carry on their activities just when you have them in a position to render them incapable of further action. I don't know if the Obama people have the balls that are necessary to deal with this situation as it requires the harshest of measures, I can only hope so.

Thanks for reading,

"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes"
Thomas Henry Huxley
1825 - 1895