I should have seen it coming. After months of depressing coverage of out-of-control violence south of the border, the media has en masse, and simultaneously, discovered its causes: guns and America. These villains are familiar to anyone following any number of media narratives. While Obama's State Department has rightly warned Americans of the dangers of travel to Mexico, Obama's administration seems indifferent to the prospect of Mexico coming to America.

It's hard to imagine an American regime that so loaths being part of this great country more than this crew. It's bad enough that our President is sending flowery "we bad" messages to people vested in our destruction but our new Secretary of State grovels to the President of a third world $hitehole by stating that it's the fault of the U.S. that Mexico has problems.

Meanwhile border chaos ensues and when people attempt to enforce the laws, the Obama Justice Department mounts a case for prosecution.

But it seems that this is the kind of weakness and banana republic chaos we should come to expect from this government.

Click on the "Gringo Guns" animation on the following site. And I thought drugs were the problem of the out of control violence, but no, guns are.

http://www.markfiore.com/

"But it seems that this is the kind of weakness and banana republic chaos we should come to expect from this government."

What's your solution? And by the way, what IS the root cause for Mexico's lack of development across the last 90 years if not the USA's self-serving manipulation of markets?

Mexico’s lack of development? Might have something to do with decades of weak government permeated by rampant and consummate corruption and a perennially poor majority of under skilled, under educated citizens who live by a system where there is no rule of law or if there is it’s not followed or enforced.

The problems there are ingrained in the culture and I’m pretty sure we can’t do much about that.

More volatility south of our border, on our border and, in many cases, over our border is part of the perfect storm that seems to be following our newly elected government. So, not only is there third world chaos and lawlessness on our doorstep, but we have a gang in Washington who are not equipped politically or philosophically to handle it.

My solution? It would be fine by me if we placed a few divisions of the 101st Airborne along the border and sent home all of those Mexican citizens that don’t belong in our country.

Your first paragraph sounds like a stereotype handed out in the 1960's. The facts are that the corrupt PRI party has been dramatically espoused in the last two elections ushering in an age of social involvement in the election process and accountability within government office. Much like Iran, their educational system is actually quite sophisticated, but they lack government funding for college tuition. As for the lack of rule of law you mention I have seen first hand the strong arm during the 2006 election and the fierce crack down on drugs in the country.

To say that the problems are ingrained is racist. That is like saying all Jews are frugal. They have a breadth of culture that parallels ours, good and bad, smart and dumb.

Doesn't the 'perfect storm' date back to the Mexican-American war, not just obama? Dung colored glasses anyone?

And your solution of stretching an already overstretched military in multiple 'global conflicts' is inane because it lacks the initiative to solve root problems. How can you propose that and say that the Obama team is 'not equipped politically or philosophically to handle it.' You aren't equipped intellectually to handle it.

For one, if we legalized pot here, it would break the backbone of the drug cartels causing so much havoc. Unfortunately they are now moving towards being our #1 supplier of heroin and meth as well, so we have to move quick. Their #1 fundraiser is kidnappings right now. Fix those, create industry, employ NAFTA without artificial (and illegal) USA subsidies and the country has a chance to grow.

The US policies of subsidizing almost every industry have artificially deflated the value of Mexican goods, suppressing their economy. The concept of true free trade seems to escape many 'conservatives' when convenient.

Why don't you just get it over with and call me a homophobe, a Nazi and tell me that I have postnasal drip?

I suppose that reality and the facts just get in the way of some social remedies or reparations that one might think is somehow necessary to change things in that country. But I'd suggest you might want to remove your glasses and clean them. I see just fine and it’s clear that Mexico is a very disturbed and broken nation and that it should be looking to itself to clean up its own yard before using our prosperity as an excuse for a system that has developed under a culture of violence and corruption.

If you choose to be an apologist and use our country as the reason some places on the planet are inherently flawed, be my guest. In fact, that prerequisite might just get you a job in the Obama administration.

But instead of holding hands with the Mexican government and effectively delving in for a collective an@lysis, I would choose that until they c0me to some conclusions about what is making them sick, we quarantine them.

To that end, I just have to wonder what will be gained by sending another 4,000 "advisors" (read - social workers) to Afghanistan on top of the 17,000 new troops that Obama just committed in addition to the thousands of forces already there when the real clear and present danger to this country is directly below our Southern border.

Is this racist? Or are the 'racists' only caucasians?...I thought so.

Makes me kind of glad our Grand Omnipotent Supreme Leader screwed up his name....

Brazil president blames white people for crisis
By Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo and agencies
Published: March 27 2009 00:27 | Last updated: March 27 2009 00:27

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.

Speaking in Brasília at a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, Mr Lula da Silva told reporters: “This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.”

You've just got to love the ineptitude and immaturity of this new administration.

Hillary Clinton (masquerading as the Secretary of State), goes to Mexico and grovels by telling them that the U.S. is the reason for all of their woes.

Then last night, she's doing a television interview and puts out the word to North Korea by saying "if anybody in North Korea is listening, I want to talk to you".

This is just bloody amateur hour.

"Break the back" of the biggest supplier of drugs by opening up a whole new market for them?

As I need to keep on reminding liberal-tarians and liberals alike, the mobs traffic in shoddy goods and pass off shoddy construction, as well as selling contraband. Goodfellas centers a guy who got his start heisting cigarettes from trucks to supply mob-owned stores. One can even imagine that they probably charged the extra taxes to the customers, but pocketed what they collected because there was no official purchase to connect them.

Mobsters conduct the legal act of lending, by charging illegal rates and penalties. Do we put them out of business by letting Chase come to your home and break your legs?

Mobs throughout history have had no problem with being semi-legitimate suppliers. But, they engage in any activity where great profit can be made by simply breaking the rules and forcing other people to participate where necessary, by any means necessary.