> Why just recently I noticed an article that pointed out that Mexico had moved 2,000 troops into Ciudad Juarez to stem violence that has taken the lives of many people this year alone. Face it, you have a war going on right at your northern border and you can do nothing about it.
Kender’s article is shameful, and he’ll be sorry he wrote it someday. So fire the Mexican diplomat. He needs it. But the rest of the article is incoherent at best. Mexico is fighting narco-terrorists increasingly hard and he mocks them? Kender’s sort of conservatism is deeply hurtful to the conservative cause, and I am one. So we helped Colombia fend off narco-terrorists and build a stable society, but we should mock and watch a similar battle closer to us and not help? This is beyond stupidity.
The US is a rich nation with a massive demand for narcotics, and Mexico is a developing nation that is growing fast, but never had to deal with a narco war unleashed on them, and they’ll need some military equipment and training from the US to stop this. And it is our national interest for greater military cooperation and it will happen if we let bitter folks like Kinder who can’t figure out who the enemy is tell us what to do.
> At this point I must say that, given the level of corruption in the Mexican government at all levels and the fact that Mexico can’t secure its northern border enough to stop the drugs and people flowing north and the guns flowing south …
Let me get this straight. You’re asking a nation to stop weapons from traveling in from the US and the US has no responsibility here? Let me guess, you oppose the “Merida Initiative” also. A “massive aid package” right? Uh-huh. 1.4 billion isn’t didly squat to Mexico, but the military hardware, partnership, and training is priceless. As it was to Colombia.
Mexico is a friendly country that is our 3rd largest trading partner. Guys like Kender who can’t tell enemies from friends are a lost cause and embarrassing to us. Being against illegal immigration need not make one go irrational like Kender does and endanger US national security in the process because of other grievances, rather than dealing with them. Geez, grow up.
-Pelosi has Iraq & Colombia (both who she wants to fail, despite the fact that the bad guys are losing and political progress of the good guys advancing)
-Kender and his ilk have Mexico (see no political progress, hear no .., speak no ..)
Message: You’re screwed by history man. no reform is possible, and nothing anyone can do can help. Don’t try to fight the bad guys, because the bad guys will win.
Face it. Mexico is the Iraq of the Paleo-Conservatives. You can’t argue with them on it, they just get more irrational and incoherent. Mexican derangement syndrome.
