Someone's Editorial on Mexico: "The War Next Door"

Click on the source link to the full editorial below; it captures some interesting points.

-The author compares the threat in Mexico with Al Qaida in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan...beheadings, killing of local leaders...etc, all while the DC beltway watches...US actions seem virtually carefree.

-The author recognizes the cartel is not simply a police problem, but growing into a national problem [Mexican].

-"President Obama can't even be bothered to visit the borderlands in Arizona, where, for the first time in history, U.S. control and sovereignty over our own territory is being ceded to foreign cartels."

-"The Los Angeles Police Department even warns that five cartels have set up logistics operations in America's second-largest city."

- US commitment to the fight is in the form of "400" million dollars a year, while the cartels bring in billions of dollars of year.  It should be a national security crisis of the highest priority, right?

-Additionally, the US is giving Mexico the money provided it follows certain restrictions and rules.   

-Article notes the US does little to curtail the aquisition and use of drugs in our country. 

-Cartels ARE killing innocents; " The latest outrage was the murder of a 6-year-old girl. She was murdered as she slept in her bed Monday, shot point-blank in the face by a cartel gunman."

-"Over 230,000 residents of Juarez, population 1.3 million, have fled for their lives from cartels, a citizens group reported last week, with 54% of them gone to El Paso."

-"Last week, the U.S. granted the first threatened Mexican journalist asylum from Juarez."  

-"The Mexican government reported that at least 11 mayors of Mexican towns have moved to the U.S. out of fear for their safety, six from the state of Tamaulipas across the Texas border."

-"Three years ago, about 50 Mexicans under threat from cartels were recommended for asylum. This year it's 176 - and rising."

-"Maybe the saddest sign of the state of this trouble is the fact that more Mexicans celebrated their country's bicentennial this year in El Paso and Los Angeles than in Juarez."

Anyone Notice The War Next Door?