Clinton's Mexican Insurgency
Apparently, the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is going well
, since Hillary Clinton found time to speak on the subject of Mexico while she should be working to bring the on-going Middle East negotiations to a successful resolution.
The United States' southern neighbor is "looking more more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago, when the narco-traffickers controlled certain parts of the country," she said, speaking from a Washington think-tank.
Colombia 20 years ago (and, in fact, parts of Colombia today) was a nation torn in two by a vicious civil war pitting the government on one side and drug trade-funded terrorists on the other. In the end, Colombia yielded a part of its territory to the insurgents, only to be frustrated and have to take that land back by force, a process that is still going on today.
The United States was useful in that war. Its consumption of illegal drugs in the United States helped fund the terrorists and the drug dealers, and its official support of the Colombian military helped arm the Colombian armed forces to a level that significantly altered the military balance in the region and which threatens to set off an arms race between Colombia and Venezuela.
Job well done.
Mrs. Clinton now envisions a future for the United States as a global leader in crisis management (because the whole Colombia thing worked out so well) and she is advocating for the sake of Mexico's "smaller" neighbors in order to help them deal with the on-going drug problem in northern Mexico.
In English, that means that Mrs. Clinton thinks that the drug conflict going on in Mexico is getting out of control and that it might spill over into other Central American nations which, she reasons, would need U.S. support in dealing with the problem.
She might be right.
But do you remember back when President Obama made a speech in Mexico City in which he said the United States needed to take responsibility for the drug problem and act on it and solve it on the U.S. end of the equation and so forth and so on? It was a joyous moment for Mexicans, and for many U.S. citizens as well.
Suddenly, people saw justice. Suddenly, people saw stronger enforcement from within the U.S. against drug dealers and drug users. The U.S. was willing to admit that if Mexico and Colombia were the supply side, then the U.S. is most obviously the demand.
This was a wonderful thing.
Some people felt that Obama would be so radical as to legalize drugs currently declared illegal and therefore end the whole drug problem from the first. After all, if the drug trade is legalized, drug lords will not need to hire gangsters and terrorists to protect them. The government would have to stop harassing them, and protection would be costly and useless.
Watch the gangsters and terrorists continue being dangerous with money.
It turns out that Obama was, it appears, just kidding.
Mrs. Clinton has showed his true policy on the issue of the drug trade: The typical U.S. mentality.
The fault is Mexico's and Colombia's and Peru's and Bolivia's and that of every nation not the United States. But the United States is so nice that it will actually send aid and soldiers to help combat the drug trade, while also using that to, maybe, build a base in some of those countries and therefore establish a more permanent presence there.
Oh, were we not supposed to see that one coming?
Sorry. We'll pretend like that didn't just happen.
Mrs. Clinton and Obama and all of the other politicians in Washington who continue to use 1980s approaches to 2010 problems will soon find that their intentional avoidance of U.S. guilt and responsibility in the current drug problem will lead to murders and killings and gangs in the United States.
It's time for them to get real, or else the problem will grow out of control and not even the mighty United States will be able to do anything about it.
Also, in regards to the Mexico-Colombia comparison made by the former First Lady, although things in Mexico are pretty bad at the moment, things in Colombia were a lot worse 20 years ago than they are in Mexico right now.
Maybe Mrs. Clinton should focus on providing solutions rather than on crushing the morale of Mexico's men and women currently serving on the front lines of the drug war.
While she's at it, maybe she could also focus on where she's needed most: The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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Clinton's Mexican Insurgency
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