Beating A Dead Horse

No Mr. Ambassador, it's not the same. Thomas E. McNamara, former ambassador to Colombia from 1989 to 1991 and State Department official in the Clinton and both Bush administrations, has chimed in about the similarity between Mexico and Colombia.

Here is a thought, let's quit arguing semantics and address the problem! By the way he is wrong just like Secretary of State Clinton is wrong.

And this is important because their inability to understand Mexico prevents them from taking useful steps towards solving this problem.

The U.S. properly supports our neighbors by giving them political, military and law enforcement assistance, as our drug consumption is one cause of the insurgencies — as is drug production south of our border. We cannot just move out of our neighborhood, so we have an interest in cleaning it up. These insurgencies corrupt us, just as they corrupt others.

Dumb and dumber continue to focus on Mexico and ignore the much larger U.S. domestic component: money and guns are coming from the United States. Where are the large scale policies that reduce consumption and discover all of the money laundering operations here in the United States Did you not see the Untouchables?

C'mon, can someone send a brother a Nextflix account?