Canuck, I think Mexico is responsible for it’s progress as a nation, and cannot be let off the hook for not improving conditions for its own citizens by simply pointing to the demand for drugs in the U.S.
So do I blame America as a country? Only to the extent that I think the U.S. has done little to fight the drug smuggling. Lot of lip service, little action. That doesn’t absolve Mexico for not developing its own natural resources, improving infrastructure, etc. Mexico too has done little to prevent drug smuggling, so at least they should have used the money to improve the country, no?
As far as guns going south, I don’t blame America as a country for that. I blame the criminals who sell the guns for greed and I wish we could put them in jail. But that’s another long discussion.
cdw is correct … it seems Mexico is trying to get serious ab out the drugs and the crime and the cartels and the escalating violence that is causing is horrendous. But in a way, it’s to be expected, because Mexico, as a country, has supported them in the past through graft and corruption. Of course it’s going to be difficult to prevent activities that have been unofficially supported for years and years.
I hope Mexico and its leaders keep fighting it, though, and I wish them well. Their country will be much the better for it eventually.
And it would be another long discussion about the pervasiveness of drugs in the U.S. and the destruction that wreaks in families, neighborhoods, and the country as a whole.
Canuck, I think Mexico is responsible for it’s progress as a nation, and cannot be let off the hook for not improving conditions for its own citizens by simply pointing to the demand for drugs in the U.S.
So do I blame America as a country? Only to the extent that I think the U.S. has done little to fight the drug smuggling. Lot of lip service, little action. That doesn’t absolve Mexico for not developing its own natural resources, improving infrastructure, etc. Mexico too has done little to prevent drug smuggling, so at least they should have used the money to improve the country, no?
As far as guns going south, I don’t blame America as a country for that. I blame the criminals who sell the guns for greed and I wish we could put them in jail. But that’s another long discussion.
cdw is correct … it seems Mexico is trying to get serious ab out the drugs and the crime and the cartels and the escalating violence that is causing is horrendous. But in a way, it’s to be expected, because Mexico, as a country, has supported them in the past through graft and corruption. Of course it’s going to be difficult to prevent activities that have been unofficially supported for years and years.
I hope Mexico and its leaders keep fighting it, though, and I wish them well. Their country will be much the better for it eventually.
And it would be another long discussion about the pervasiveness of drugs in the U.S. and the destruction that wreaks in families, neighborhoods, and the country as a whole.