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Obama 'outraged' at consulate murders in Mexico; Apology to Mexico, Bow to Calderon to Follow?
2010-03-14
President Barack Obama is "deeply saddened and outraged" at news of the murders of a federal employee and two relatives of workers at the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an administration spokesman said.

National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer gave the statement Sunday in response to "brutal murders" of the American consulate employee, her husband and the husband of a consulate employee who was Mexican. Obama "extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions," Hammer said. "In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice," Hammer added.
Mike Hammer? Maybe they should put him on the case.
Ciudad Juarez, near the Texas border, has been at the center of drug-related violence in Mexico that has claimed nearly 19,000 lives. The State Department authorized relatives of employees at the U.S. consulates in Ciudad Juarez and five other Mexican cities to leave until April 12 out of concerns of rising violence.

U.S. officials have plans to send American intelligence agents to work with Mexican law enforcement to go after the drug cartel, the Washington Post reported last month. Hammer said the United States "will continue to work with Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his government to break the power of the drug trafficking organizations that operate in Mexico and far too often target and kill the innocent. This is a responsibility we must shoulder together, particularly in border communities where strong bonds of history, culture, and common interest bind the Mexican and the American people closely together," he said.
Posted by:JohnQC

#14  So when are we sending in the Hellfire armed Reapers?
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2010-03-14 23:38  

#13  Illegal immigration from Mexico is not like illegal immigration from other countries. It's much more pernicious, because it enables a) an irredentist US-based ethnic political faction that thinks it "owns" the southwest, and b) a Mexican political class that thinks it can export its political failures and import many many billions in hard currency in the bargain.

And all because TweedleDee wants a lock on cheap labor for its business class and TweedleDum wants a lock on the fastest-growing voting bloc.

Decadence defined.
Posted by: lex   2010-03-14 22:10  

#12  Drudge is reporting Mexico under seige. 13 killed in Acapulco...11 others elsewhere. Corrupt cops are probably hiding somewhere until the shooting stops.
Posted by: Gomez Threter7450   2010-03-14 21:54  

#11  Notice that Mexico does NOT have the death penalty...

Hotspur, this site does NOT allow commenters to call for the death of American citizens.

And we particularly do not allow it from servers outside the country.

This is your last warning.

- The Mods
Posted by: Hotspur666   2010-03-14 20:19  

#10  
Black Bart, you were asked to stick to one 'nym. The mods are busy right now and don't have time to check out your 6 or 7 nyms used today. Moreover you've been asked in the past to stick to one, and you told Trailing Wife you would do so.

Enough.
Posted by: Bugs Angitch2268   2010-03-14 19:22  

#9  What % of Mexican cities are now effectively no-go zones? I'd guess that when the number of no-go cities exceeds 20%, you're witnessing state collapse.

Are we there yet?
Posted by: lex   2010-03-14 17:37  

#8  Yes. As an Army War College paper pointed out a few years ago, gang activity is a form of uban insurgency designed to prevent the state from exercising control in an urban area. In Mexico they've been so successful they've branched out to major regions of the country and are now emboldened to take on the US directly, with these assasination and border incursions.
Posted by: lotp   2010-03-14 17:25  

#7  19,000??? They're having themselves quite a little war down there.

This is a failure of central authority. Prelude to collapse of not the government but the state itself.
Posted by: lex   2010-03-14 17:03  

#6  Where's the apology?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-03-14 17:00  

#5  Failing state alert.

I think I know of a sleeper issue for this fall's elections....

Maybe it's time to start protecting the border? And stop importing an underclass while we're at it?

Posted by: lex   2010-03-14 15:48  

#4  19,000??? They're having themselves quite a little war down there.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2010-03-14 15:02  

#3  "paging Mitch Rapp. Mr. Rapp to the courtesy phone"
Posted by: Frank G   2010-03-14 14:35  

#2  National Security spokesman? Since when was Mexico a part of the nation? Wish he was this sincere regarding our massacred troops in Texas, but we were told "not to rush to judgement"...
Posted by: Bob Gleanter3083   2010-03-14 14:20  

#1  What, no "shout outs"?
Posted by: tu3031   2010-03-14 14:13  

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