Mexican military losing drug war support

The Mexican military (boy, that is an oxymoron!) ARE the drug cartel. They just carry their machine guns more openly. Mexico is a septic tank; and always has been.

You are so dumb and ignorant. I feel sorry for you, your mother and especially (god forbid you have any) your children.

well!! - this certainly appears to be racial profiling ....

The question is . Why is our government giving them money, know how corrupt they are. And it not like they are not getting enopugh from the US anyway.

Seems to me these people need some help. If the Mexicans are truly trying to get rid of the drugs I think this is a war worth fighting. Drugs are DESTROYING people. Why arent more involved?

They get our money so politicians HERE can tell the gullible American public "hey, look! WE'RE doing something to fight the War on Drugs!". Go rent the movie "Traffic" which touches on this weird relationship.
The Mexican military are your standard, corrupt, 'banana republic' military entity: they beat up the law abiding citizenry and are deep in the pockets of those who are deep in someone else's deeeeep pockets. Though a contingent of them get kudos for rendering help here at refugee camps in Texas in the days after Hurricane Katrina, they (or those dressed like them) have occasionally openned fire on the Border Patrol in deep South Texas. Revolutions & civil wars have never fixed anything "south of the border"; they've only symbolically hit the "RESET" button so new guys could replace the old. Any wonder why so many want to come live north of the border?
Our political way of life has lots of drawbacks to be sure. One look at Mexico, though, and you realize: it could be worse!

Spike probably has this one spot on. But the military can't win, even if they're good military. People want protection from criminals so they call the government. They send in the military. When they get there and they don't know who is who in these town, and in most cases the towns people are so afraid of the criminal element, that they're afraid to point them out. When the military starts asking questions, they want answers. People aren't use to having someone ask in a demanding way, so they start complaining about their rights being violated, and the military can't do their job if they have to beg people to get answers to straight forward questions. So you're back to square one. The people say the military is as bad as the criminals, so everyone gets frustrated.

It is a bilateral problem! Is NOT only Mexico's. Here in the USA our citizens are the ones that keep the supply going with HUGE DEMAND! Here in the USA our citizens are the ones abusing drugs in all levels! Nobody is forcing our citizens to buy/use drugs! So, it is our country's responsibility too! - Many drugs come from Mexico; but at the same time the powerful weapons that are used by the cartels are illegally exported from USA! - Watch the movie "No Country for Old Men", which is based in actual facts, you will see that there are people both White and Mexicans involved in the narco/arms/traffick. So, I ask all of you self-righteous Americans to stop pointing fingers and blaming others when you are part of the problem; in fact you all American drug users ARE THE MAIN PROBLEM!!!

Just think of the Mexican Army patrolling American streets!!!

Think it can't happen!

The Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America would allow Mexican troops to patrol American Streets in times of crisis.

Silly me, I thought we already had a bad criminal element in the U.S.

Sounds like fun times to come!!!!

Hmmmm. You mean the people of Mexico don't like jack booted thugs that are above the law either?

From personal knowledge, I know that here in America, there are very powerful citizens who use, sell and traffic in Drugs. Judges and Politicians alike. Drugs are a Aphrodisiac that gives people a false sense of overwhelming power in all of vanities. Most people think that only the lowly and downtrodden are tempted. As of matter of fact it preferrs the already rich and famous. It makes the poor feel like Kings and the rich feel like Gods. Go figure where this will lead mankind.

In America the downtrodden as well as the rich and famous partake of the aphrodisiac od drugs. Sociaty fails to tell its citizens thats it the worst disquise of power on earth. promises one gold and happiness, but yields posion and death when taken without professional guidiance.

Yet another example of how stupid and costly the "War on Drugs" is.

-Drugs being illegal have never stopped one person, not one, in the entire world who wants them from getting them.

-Drugs being illegal only means that the money goes to criminal interests without $0.01 being spent on education or treatment programs.

-Billions upon billions have been spent with nothing accomplished.

-Illegal means unregulated, which means that anything at all can be in drugs and you can get them on any street corner.

-The legal drugs prescribed are more often than not, more addictive and harmful than marijuana and other drugs.

Its a complete joke. Unfortunately its a joke that ruins lives and costs unbelievable sums of money for no benefit.

Let's see, the Mexican government accepting large sums of money (from the US) with conditions violates their sovereignty, but the Mexican government accepting large sums of money (from the US) with no conditions or oversight is beneficial to their graft and corruption systems and that is OK. I don't know if legalizing drugs is the answer (I doubt it and you'll never find enough politicians with the guts to vote for it), but you are right when you say that the main cause of the problem is the demand north of the border. And folks, there is no such thing as a casual user.

The old Fed Chair had it right, this is no different than prohibition. Thinking that criminalizing something will affect demand is ridiculous. All we have done is drive the price up of illegal drugs by trying to enforce our laws. The problem then becomes the attraction of "entrepreneurs" going after profits that we enable with our policy. And prohibition showed that there was no change in demand either way and as soon as decriminalization took place the price fell and people like Al Capone were out of business. If cocaine was priced like sugar who would smuggle it or deal it? Would it change your mind about doing it if it were cheap? We have the answers to these questions already and ignore it. The drug war is thirty years old and we are farther behind than ever. The DEA reports that the average pound of Marijuana confiscated cost them about $90,000. That pound is not worth 10% of that on the street, it would be more effective to just buy the drugs they confiscate than waste their time trying to find it.
As well if cocaine were as cheap as sugar, crack heads would not resort to crime to feed their habit, $20 would keep them busy for a month.
Lastly is the cost of unregulated drugs, many heroine overdoses are due to mistakes in manufacturing causing overdoses. Miscalculations cost many of these addicts their lives, and the argument for the spread of HIV through these users is also made in regard to the situation they are in. As well comes the idea of substitution. The only reason we have a meth problem in this country is because it is the substitute for something else. When you can't have coke you'll ask for pepsi, same with meth, coke, heroine etc. Basic economic principles scream the right answer and no one is listening.

The DEA reports that the average pound of Marijuana confiscated cost them about $90,000. That pound is not worth 10% of that on the street, it would be more effective to just buy the drugs they confiscate than waste their time trying to find it.

If that number ($90,000) is anywhere near accurate I couldn't agree more. What a sickening waste of our money!

Unfortunately we cannot allow ourselves to end the war on drugs until drugs have become extinct, the alternative is the death of mankind. No dictator has ever had anything near the power that drugs have. Even the British attempted to use drugs as a form of control in the Opium Wars. And now a new war is starting where the Cartel lords are thirsty for power and hateful of free will, so dependent on the illusion of human nature that they never think twice of ethics. Their power and influence is spreading to where they already have control of at least three governments, Mexico being the most obvious example.

The war on drugs cannot be fought with bullets and tanks. It is a war for the freedom of every human being on the planet, not a politician on a high chair. Therefore we, not just the soldiers, are the army. We must all, from the broken-home kids to the Vatican priests to the most devout Al-Queda member, recognize we share a common enemy greater than terrorism, gas prices, global warming, and our petty territorial disputes. We must all rebel against this new regime, the ultimate fascism that ends free will from a bong or a syringe. To do drugs may seem like a personal choice today, but in a matter of decades we may lose our right to say no if we do not resist now.

Before there were borders, there was infinity. Before there were governments, there was freedom. Before there were drugs, there was humanity. We evolved from the primordial ooze and survived countless millennia with just our fire and spears, without drugs. The human race never has and never will depend on drugs.

Really? I must thank you for your post as it proves my point entirely about both sides of the argument. The side for the legalization of drugs pose intelligent and rational points about about their side, such things as regulation and treatment programs. Those opposed have no argument other than "REEFER MADNESS", "MANKIND WILL END".

Mankind has been using intoxicants since the dawn of time, before the inventions of Gods and written history. To say that the "war on drugs" is necessary to save mankind is the most amazing form of self deception that I have ever seen. I strongly advise you to at least read a history book before using it to justify your inaccurate stance.

The drug cartels that you are so afraid of taking over the world are getting their funding from the "war on drugs". As stated in previous posts all this does is push up the prices and all the money goes to criminals. People wanted alcohol before prohibition, people got alcohol during prohibition, all that money went to criminals.

I shouldn't even have to say anything about your comments that if drug were legal then we would lose our right to say no. Honestly. Alcohol is legal so everyone must be a drunk, porn is legal so everyone must be a pervert, tobacco is legal so everyone is a chainsmoker. Completely amazing how anyone can come to this conclusion.

Regulation, taxation, education or self deception and egotism, with a dash of HUGE profits for drug companies with doctors as their pushers thrown in. Which side are you on?