MANCHESTER, N.H. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Saturday that he would consider sending U.S. troops into Mexico to combat drug-related violence and stop it from spilling into the southern United States.Read the rest here.
“It may require our military in Mexico,” Perry said in answer to a question about the growing threat of drug violence along the southern border. Perry offered no details, and a spokesman, Robert Black, said afterward that sending troops to Mexico would be merely one way of putting an end to the exploding cartel-related violence in the region.
Update: The NY Times now reports that Gov. Perry has clarified his earlier remarks to assure people that US troops would only enter Mexico with the permission of that country (ocasión gorda).
That's just a cynical diversion to take our attention away from our real enemy. Canada.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that he is reminding Americans how serious the situation is. Mexico has become perhaps the most dangerous country for journalists in the world. In 2009, 244 cases of attacks and intimidation against journalists and media workers were registered in Mexico. Eleven of those Mexican journalists were murdered. More were murdered in 2010, and 2011 may surpass that number as Mexican journalists bravely report on government corruption and drug-related crime. Last week the Zeta drug gang murdered and dismembered the body of María Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39, news editor for the daily Primera Hora in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on the United States border.
ReplyDeleteNaturally this is Perry's perspective: the Great White Father must go in and bestow the glories of social democracy upon Mexico.
ReplyDeleteThe strategy of keeping the chaos of Mexico out of the US (like the Dominican Republic does with Haiti) is simply not considered.