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To: TobagoJack who wrote (69591)12/14/2010 7:50:43 AM
From: carranza21 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 217901
 
Demand for drugs in the US is destroying Mexico as we knew it. Period. Full stop.

I look at the debate about illegal immigration with a terribly jaundiced eye. We bitch and moan about illegals but do we ever consider to what extent many of them are simply doing the human thing, the inescapable escape to safety from bullets and grenades? An escape for which our drug users are responsible?

In the Big Balance of Things, who is being harmed the most, the US with a few easily afforded illegals, a nuisance, really. Or Mexico, which is being slowly destroyed as a country, a place where the government simply does not control all of the territory, a place where literally tens of thousands have been killed in the drug war whose only cause is drug consumption in the US?

What would you do? Stay or leave? Where would you go?

The law abiding Mexicans have every right to be really, really pissed off at us. And they are. They look at the Big Balance of Things in much the same way I do. This could very easily lead to a hard left or a hard right turn in their politics as the Mexicans look for a 'savior.' Radical politics is nothing new down there, and we won't like it. Imagine another incompetent dictator/demagogue like Chavez in charge.

And that's why the situation in Mexico is so important. Of course, our idiotic political class prefers to deal with lesser things.

Soon enough, the question will be "Who lost Mexico?" a question with which I believe you are vaguely familiar.
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