JOHN HINDERAKER: “The situation in Mexico is a disaster, and one that directly threatens our national security. For reasons that I don’t understand, most Americans don’t seem to care, and the Obama administration reflects that apathy. Mexico makes Iraq look like Switzerland. Iraq is, I think, important to our security, but Mexico is much more so.”

UPDATE: A reader recommends the Borderland Beat blog for reports of goings-on in Mexico, many of them rather gruesome.