Thread: Mexico's Big War

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Mexico's Big War

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Posted 1/5/2007

Border: The invasion and rout of an Arizona National Guard station by Mexican traffickers Wednesday signals that Mexico's fierce new war against smugglers is spilling over into the U.S. We should have been prepared.

Not since the days of Pancho Villa has the U.S. fallen to armed Mexican invaders stealing in and making raids. Unlike in those days, though, Mexico's government is led by an ally, President Felipe Calderon, who seems to be working hard to destroy the criminals whose corrosive presence tempts many Mexicans to seek new lives in the U.S. illegally.

This attack on the National Guard is part of a much larger war that Calderon is waging on Mexico's violent criminal syndicates, which thrive on smuggling drugs and illegal immigrants.

Last week Calderon dispatched 3,000 federal troops to Mexico's second-worst crime haven, Tijuana — where traffickers murdered 300 people in 2006 — in a head-on confrontation with the enemy. This is Calderon's second dispatch of troops to fight organized criminal mafias, following a dispatch of 7,200 federal troops into crime-racked Michoacan state in the south.

The timing of Calderon's move coincided with Wednesday's armed border attack by bandits on U.S. National Guard troops near Tucson, Ariz. The U.S. troops are patrolling the border to help spot illegal immigrants but aren't allowed to shoot. So once attacked, they had no choice but to retreat.

Yes, we think there's a connection. The governor of Sonora, the Mexican state on Arizona's border, warned a day earlier that Calderon's march to retake Tijuana could drive organized criminals eastward into his state. Turns out, he was right.

In Washington, Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Steven Robertson agreed that the Arizona border attack may well be spillover from the Tijuana crackdown.

"It's the way things operate," he said. "Take enforcement one place and criminal organizations move to other areas."

It's happened before. In the 1980s, the DEA crushed Colombian traffic rings in Miami and then watched them move into northern Mexico — where the drug war is being fought now.

What's astonishing is how ill-prepared the U.S. was for this. It was publicly announced that Calderon sent 3,000 troops, 21 planes, nine helicopters and 247 military vehicles into Tijuana last week. He told Mexican troops to plan for a long offensive.

On our side of the border, National Guardsmen were sent to the border in a showcase of beefed-up border security. Yet, under the rules of engagement, they weren't even permitted to fire on armed invaders, for fear of "militarizing" the border.

Worse, the National Guard won't even say whether they were fired on by the border thugs. Shouldn't we know this?

This underscores just how serious our border problem is — and how unserious politicians seem to be about solving it. From recent flippant comments by Sen. John McCain about the border fence, to a California proposal to grant health insurance to children of illegals, politicians just don't seem to grasp the consequences of their failure to protect our border.

Al-Qaida terrorists have been eyeing our unfortified border with interest for some time. They must be looking at this rout of the U.S. military by mere lowlife Mexican dopers with pure fascination.

Al-Qaida terrorists have been eyeing our unfortified border with interest for some time. They must be looking at this rout of the U.S. military by mere lowlife Mexican dopers with pure fascination.

You know , Why dosen't bUsH seem to care the least bit about Al qaida coming across a wide open border , But yet attacks a country because of an al qaida presence ? Why is al qaida a threat thousands of miles away but not 1 mile away ? What could possibly explain that ? What does bUsH know that we don't ? To me that would indicate that al qaida isn't the threat he claims them to be . How could they be if they are allowed to easily enter this country and not only that once they are here nothing really can be done about it .

Originally Posted by longcut

How could they be if they are allowed to easily enter this country and not only that once they are here nothing really can be done about it.

The same question should be asked about "terrorist cells" in places like Dearborn, Michigan. I hear time and time again that possible terrorists in the United States are under "surveillance". Why are they under surveillance at all? Why not just deport them right away? Because an ACLU lawyer will bring a lawsuit for "Islamophobia".

I think we are entering the first stages of anarchy in our government right now. McCain is clearly insane, for example. Our Founding Fathers told us to watch out for this behavior which they described as corrupt American politicians selling out to rich foreign interests and that Americans would have to revolt against them. I think that the beginning of this revolt will happen in a small town that has enancted an ordinance against illegal immigrants and defies the courts and federal government and will attempt to stand firm. Let's be prepared to give support to such a community as the battle starts.

The more you study Bush, the more you realize that he has converted himself into a Communist, much the same way Clinton did before leaving office. It must be an occupational disease of American presidents right now (and ex-presidents like Carter) that you convert to Communism and then put the American people up for sale to the cheapest third-world bidder like Mexico (and the United Arab Emirates).

History repeats itself; the riots we see in France are a repeat of similar riots that took place in France before World War II:

http://www.amazon.com/Nightmare-Years-1 ... 1841581224

Nightmare Years: 1930 - 1940 (Paperback)
by William Shirer

Shirer begins by describing his days in Vienna, Afghanistan, Spain, and France, but the book's heart comes with his posting to Berlin in 1934. Readers learn about Gestapo terror, prewar rearmament, increasing anti-Semitism, and the devotion of many (but not all) Germans to their violent Fuehrer. Shirer also examines the inexplicable appeasement policies of France and Britain - policies that leave one as baffled today as in the 1930's. The author recounts joining Ed Murrow at CBS Radio in 1938 and then broadcasting events such as the Anchluss (takeover) of Austria, the betrayal at Munich, and the German invasion of Poland. Shirer also recounts traveling with the German army as it tore through Belgium in 1940, seeing Paris under Nazi rule, and broadcasting the French surrender. The book's nicely readable prose vividly recreates the stifling atmosphere and the unfolding, utterly preventable tragedy.