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To: Taro who wrote (578643)	7/30/2010 10:05:31 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575887

"A couple of beers knocks the socks off that at anytime and kills the thirst far better." It's been a LONG time since you tried any weed, hasn't it?

To: Taro who wrote (578643)	7/30/2010 11:03:08 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1575887

Re: Believe you are over doing it somewhat to put it mildly. Like as drug trafficking and related crimes would be a US/Mexican border problem only, right? You overlook the fact that the explosion of organized-crime violence along the US-Mexican border is a very recent phenomenon... Up until the late 1990s, the Mexican border used to be pretty quiet --you had to go as far down as Colombia to witness internecine cartel warfare. Remember the Cali vs Medellin war (Pablo Escobar, etc). Then, suddenly, starting in the early 2000s, inter-gang warfare broke out in Mexico?! I find it somewhat strange... why do Mexican cartels prove unable to bargain a deal --a peaceful carve-up of the US drug market? I mean, we're talking ORGANIZED crime, aren't we? Drug lords are but smart, rational businessmen --it just makes NO SENSE for them to kill each other when there's enough room for all the drug cartels... Therefore, I stick to my opinion that most, if not all, internecine warfare among Mex drug cartels is triggered and exacerbated by US intelligence (read: CIA and FBI). Drug violence along the Mexican border provides US WASP elites with a proper, acceptable rationale to militarize the border and to kill two birds with one stone: fighting the drug cartels AND making it more difficult for illegal Latinos to cross the border. Gus () pbs.org