Right now, President Obama is handling many poisonous snakes (crises that could implode on all of us) and who wants to add another?
Yet, there is another that is not on most of our radar screens yet, but in Texas I'm told the escalating violence in Mexico (including multiple shoot-outs between drug cartels and police which often result in innocent bystander deaths) is of major concern.
Here is a story about recent violence in Northern Mexico.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7882653.stm
'Lest you think this can be ignored as not our problem, please think again. This violence is in part the consequence of our war on drugs and incredibly our successes in imprisoning the leaders of Mexico's drug cartels. Now, the drug cartels are fighting each other and the Mexican police and army for control right on our border.
Also, Mexico is our neighbor. But, if the morality of decently treating your neighbor does not convince in light of all of our many crises, do remember that violence tends to spread-- and this violence could (and has I'm told spread into El Paso) spread throughout our Western states. So far, it seems, the Baja Penisula is free of this crisis.
Texans I know tell me this weighs very heavily on their minds and is covered in their local media. The stories I'm told sound similar to Chicago in the era of Al Capone and prohibition.
I have neither a solution, nor do I know an Eliot Ness who could provide one-- nonetheless, I felt better to forewarn than not.
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