Which is the greater evil? Legalized narcotics for America’s young or a failed state of 110 million on our southern border?
Heeding the advice of Gen. David Petraeus, Barack Obama has committed17,000 more troops to Afghanistan and will keep 50,000 in Iraq afterU.S. combat operations end in August 2010.
But are U.S. vitalinterests more threatened by what happens in Anbar or Helmand than inthe war raging along our southern border?
Prediction: After allU.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Korea have come home, there willbe a U.S. army on the Mexican border. For this is where the fate of ourrepublic will be decided, as the fate of Europe will be decided by themillions streaming north from the Maghreb and Middle East, sub-Saharaand South Asia.Some 2,500 federal troops are already in Juarez, where in 2008 therewere 1,600 drug-related murders. Gun battles occur every day.Nationally, 45,000 army troops and police are committed to this warthat Mexico is not winning. For, according to the March 3 WashingtonTimes, the Pentagon now estimates the cartels field more than 100,000foot soldiers.
The chief of police of Juarez just resignedafter a cartel threatened to kill an officer every 48 hours if he didnot. To prove its seriousness, the cartel murdered four cops, includingthe chief’s deputy. Last year, 50 police officers in Juarez weremurdered.