Clarity of action & clarity of purpose. Well said ClBleachers.
Watched the C-Span House Homeland Sec committee under Connie Mack of Florida – striking at the heart of this issue. These hearings are NO WHERE on the radar of most americans, because as Ruben proves yet again, and as ClBleachers elequently points out, most are distracted by the drivel and political posturing – which Newts quip was but the latest.
One of Napolitano’s cheif aids from DHS was onboard as well as another long time Dept of Justice dep. (under both Bush and Obama) and a very well informed former ambassador whose 20+ experiences included running our embassy in Columbia during the worst of the drug war there.
Remarkably robust discussion debating whether Mexico deserves having the same kind of Terrorist designations concerning the Cartels as we eventually placed on there.
Despite the supposed ‘record level of co-operation’ via the Merida Intitative, which mirrors the Napolitano DHS insistance that the border is the safest ever, this pannel – while strenuously disagreing with the Republicans who want the cartels so designated to enable seizure, extradition, and asset forefiture US LAW to fight these criminals like we did in Columbia – proved telling in their forthright discussion.
Few pay attention to the attempts by our DOJ, Homeland Security, and in a minor role our military to salvage the massive INSURGENCY by the cartels into the police, army and justice system in Mexico. This has now included political recruitment besides the occational political assassination. These changes mirror the evolution of what the Palestinians and Hamas has done on the United Nations ‘international front’ as well as the all ‘politics are local’ approach to winning hearts and minds on the ground – such as providing health care and ‘jobs.’
While we get some credible reporting at sites like PJ, it’s a story that goes largely ignored in the MSM.
What needs added to your list ClBleachers is that Mexico – no matter if it’s run by a supposed ally like Caulderon or a reversion back to a leftist leaning PRI sock puppet in the next eleciton – is such a corrupt and flailing democracy – that it is hardly any more reliable as an ally than is Pakistan.
Connie Mack is right on in this pursuit. Border security as national security goes way beyond finger pointing over Oxacan gardners crashing the gate or fighting for a real or imagined coveted growing voter demo here; it now includes proven ties between the criminal drug cartels and groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Between the exausted Mexican people – who are showing a troubling inclination after all the brutal violence to surrender to some kind of ‘new normal’ when it comes to accepting ongoing corruption over the cost in blood and treasure to ‘win’ by vanquishing these criminals – and the kind of appeasement the Obama administration pursues in the name of ‘equal partnership’ and support – we are closer to policy akin to what the Europeans did when ‘negotiating’ with the various terrorist groups active in Italy, France, and Germany in the 70′s.
Changing this foolish and expensive FAILING policy to one that not only secures the border but also helps DEFEAT the corrosive corruption now strangling democracy in Mexico can only be achieved when we kick out the current adminstration.
Obama cares about nothing except the kind of craven tribal and parochial political concerns exemplified by dopes like Navarrette and idoits like Luis Gutierrez of the Hispanic caucus.
