The unmet Mexican threat to America

John Burtis, a columnist who has travelled widely in Mexico and knows the country well, points to the emerging reality about our “neighbor” to the south. Mexico is a chaotic, criminal state that, with the compliance and invitation of our own “leaders,” is waging war against our country. Here are excepts from his article:

Recently, however, I have my doubts about the safety in many areas of this third world country. With the uncovering of massive tunnels linking the two countries and serving as a fully illuminated conduit for tons of drugs and thousands of people, with the incursions of heavily armed renegades outfitted in Mexican army battle dress shamelessly shooting it out with the US Border Patrol and local sheriff’s deputies, with thousands upon thousands of illegals being snared by overworked agents, with the constant barrage of anti-American propaganda issuing from Mexico City, with travel aids being issued to the illegal border crossers by the Mexican government, and with increasing intelligence that international terrorists find the Mexican border a mere nuisance, it is becoming more apparent that Mexico has become our primary local security problem in the international war on terror. These problems, when combined with the Mexican government’s obvious lack of control over its own military and the continued growth of the gangster and drug dealing element, who seem able to prey on Mexico’s own military stockpiles and motor pool’s at will, indicate a decided lack of will at Mexico’s federal level.

Whether or not the state of affairs in Mexico has resulted by design, by a lack of governmental control or the growth of sheer banditry should be of no concern and require no hand-wringing or Clintonesque tears of empathy. The escalation of violence associated with the border, the growing amounts of drugs confiscated at or near the border, the massive numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border, and the corresponding ease with which terrorists and their weapons of destruction can cross this same line of demarcation should be speaking very clearly to those who are elected to manage the affairs of this nation and dictate the path of response. The fact that there is no concerted effort to halt this madness speaks to a deafness and blindness inherent in all parties inside the beltway which borders on obdurate recklessness.

Should our leaders fail to recognize the size and magnitude of this threat and continue to pander to the effete liberal forces which advocate for the maintenance of the status quo and offer further perquisites and payola to the fence hoppers, they must be either awakened or replaced.

It is now our choice to decide how to respond to Mexico—are we going to continue being the fat, happy and easily misled Santa, continually giving the store away no matter how many border patrolmen and local deputies are killed, no matter how many weapons of mass destruction and drugs are carried through how many new tunnels by how many terrorists in order to kill how many millions of us, or are we going to wake up and eliminate the growing menace to our survival…

The choice is ours, only so long as there remains time to act.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 01, 2006 07:23 PM | Send