tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post3982371790106546636..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Guilty plea from corrupt border SheriffGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-21817443851005737002009-05-08T14:55:00.000-05:002009-05-08T14:55:00.000-05:00Rolling Stone,
The Making of a Narco State
As M...Rolling Stone, <br /><br />The Making of a Narco State <br />As Mexico descends into brutality and lawlessness, the government itself has become a tool of the drug lords <br />by GUY LAWSON Posted Mar 04, 2009 <br /><br />"Mexico is on the edge of the abyss," retired U.S. general and former drug czar Barry McCaffrey wrote in a strategic assessment at the end of last year. Michael Hayden, the outgoing head of the CIA, said in January that the threat of a narco state in Mexico is one of the gravest dangers to American security, on a par with a nuclear–armed Iran. <br /><br />A recent report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command likens instability in Mexico to the risk of a failed state in Pakistan, warning that a "rapid and sudden collapse" could occur in the coming years. "Any descent by Mexico into chaos," the report concludes, "would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone." <br /><br />Keep your eye on the border. This kind of corruption doesn't stop at the border and it is a danger to the rule of law in the US. It seems to control a good part of South Texas and these transformations occur in a step by step fashion until it becomes the norm and people loose the will to resist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com