> Joe, there is a vast difference that you are apparently not taking into consideration. Columbia is a PRODUCER of these drugs while mexico is simply a CORRIDOR for them. Do you see the difference?
Do I see the difference? I pointed it out and it support my argument. But it doesn’t support yours, and notice you’ve not said how it supports your point that we shouldn’t help Mexico with security. That’s a curious omission. How does that obvious fact help your argument? Why should we help Colombia and not Mexico?
> Yes mexico has a problem with drug gangs, but they also have a huge cultural problem with corruption (its expected) and the Colombians worked hand in hand with us all these years while mexico does not. Columbia earned our aid. Mexico has not.
Pure BS. Helping the Colombians was hugely controversial because of the same reasons you cite for Mexico. It still is! Some congresspeople fought it tooth and nail because of corruption in the military and government. And the dems want to kill any trade pacts for the same reasons. Your trying to rewrite history to support your point, and it isn’t going to fly. Just Google if your memory is that short. But the tide turned in Colombia after a lot of bad guys were killed and the good guys felt safe coming out of the woodwork. Without security sufficient to the task, which Colombia did not have the institutions for, they’d still be mired in corruption and murder.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/killertoc.htm
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/War_On_Terrorism/PickingEnemies_Colombia.html
BTW, I left Canada off the list of nations that we provide security for. We patrol the Canadian border with predator drones out of the airbase Grand Forks because the Canadians don’t have the capacity to protect their own border.
http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200702/20070212_UAV_CAN_US_Border.htm
And I bet you don’t know that predator drones also patrol the Mexican border from Fort Huachuca. Fact is that billions of taxpayer dollars are spent for both borders now. Kender, should we stop partolling both borders at taxpayer expense and “call for” Mexico and Canada to do it?
