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Mexico, My Mexico
Posted by
Dr. D
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31 July 2010
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It was a land of beauty, home to beautiful people. They were a people believing in love and finding beauty in all things, and each other. It was a land of peace and abundance where nature was a friend and life was easy. That was Mexico, my Mexico.
Today Mexico is at war with itself. Highly organized cartels battle for control of routes to deliver drugs across its northern border. The streets are no longer for walking by moonlight or sitting in your front yard talking with neighbors. The streets are now abandoned for no one knows when or where the next battle will take place.
It has long been said that poor Mexico is so far from God and so close to the United States. Today it has every reason to say this. The marketplace for drugs is in the United States. A large percentage of the arms delivered into the hands of the cartels come from the United States. Participation by the U.S. in this conflict has been minimal except for some funding for the effort.
A news commentator recently said, "People in Mexico believe that they are fighting America's war." What a moronic statement! Drug consumption in Mexico is minimal mainly because of its extreme poverty that prohibits the purchase of drugs. So Mexico is fighting a war to prevent drugs from entering the U.S. and so whose war is it? It is the war against drugs that the U.S. lost back in the Reagan era and now it is being fought south of its border.
Not long ago a woman on a bus had her baby killed by a stray bullet as he rested in her arms. Eighteen were slain at a birthday party. Ten more were killed at the opening of a new bar. Eight were killed at a night club. A grenade was thrown into a police car killing all its occupants. Human heads were tossed on the steps of the city hall. Children practice what to do if there is a nearby shooting in schools, just as they did during the cold war.
But Americans glance southward and believe that it is Mexico's problem and so it isn't very important. It is easier to fill the headlines with the immigration law of Arizona than the loss of more than 7,000 lives in Mexico in recent months.
Incidentally, when Katrina struck, the first boats to arrive with aid were from Mexico.
Today Mexico is at war with itself. Highly organized cartels battle for control of routes to deliver drugs across its northern border. The streets are no longer for walking by moonlight or sitting in your front yard talking with neighbors. The streets are now abandoned for no one knows when or where the next battle will take place.
It has long been said that poor Mexico is so far from God and so close to the United States. Today it has every reason to say this. The marketplace for drugs is in the United States. A large percentage of the arms delivered into the hands of the cartels come from the United States. Participation by the U.S. in this conflict has been minimal except for some funding for the effort.
A news commentator recently said, "People in Mexico believe that they are fighting America's war." What a moronic statement! Drug consumption in Mexico is minimal mainly because of its extreme poverty that prohibits the purchase of drugs. So Mexico is fighting a war to prevent drugs from entering the U.S. and so whose war is it? It is the war against drugs that the U.S. lost back in the Reagan era and now it is being fought south of its border.
Not long ago a woman on a bus had her baby killed by a stray bullet as he rested in her arms. Eighteen were slain at a birthday party. Ten more were killed at the opening of a new bar. Eight were killed at a night club. A grenade was thrown into a police car killing all its occupants. Human heads were tossed on the steps of the city hall. Children practice what to do if there is a nearby shooting in schools, just as they did during the cold war.
But Americans glance southward and believe that it is Mexico's problem and so it isn't very important. It is easier to fill the headlines with the immigration law of Arizona than the loss of more than 7,000 lives in Mexico in recent months.
Incidentally, when Katrina struck, the first boats to arrive with aid were from Mexico.
