Mexican Drug Wars
March 26, 2009 | Los Angeles, California | Vetting explained
I hope that Calderon's plan works and that the armed forces can disarm the cartels.
I was thinking of an even more radical solution last night when I saw AC360. Why can't Calderon simply bomb the compounds where these drug lords live?
OK, OK I know that is a radical idea to have a country go at war with its own people. It would be rather like our own civil war wouldn't it? But I've begun to wonder if civil war conditions aren't exactly what Mexico is facing. After all, a large portion of the population has been enslaved by the drug cartels. As has been stated by many reporters, they kill who they can't corrupt. The cartels are forcing people to live the way they want them to live. That's slavery.
The rest of the country that isn't under complete control of the cartels wants them gone---or at least that's what we're told. So why can't Calderon use satelite technology to burn the pot fields and bomb the homes of the drug lords?
It's either that solution or Mexico needs to start building some really huge, super-strong prisons. Once they find the cartel members, where are they going to put them?
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