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2010-03-14 Home Front: WoT

Obama 'outraged' at consulate murders in Mexico; Apology to Mexico, Bow to Calderon to Follow?

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Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-14 13:58|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 What, no "shout outs"?

Posted by tu3031 2010-03-14 14:13|| 2010-03-14 14:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 14:20|| Front Page Top

#3 "paging Mitch Rapp. Mr. Rapp to the courtesy phone"

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-14 14:35|| 2010-03-14 14:35|| Front Page Top

#4 19,000??? They're having themselves quite a little war down there.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2010-03-14 15:02|| 2010-03-14 15:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 15:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Where's the apology?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-03-14 17:00|| 2010-03-14 17:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 17:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 17:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 17:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 19:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 20:19|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 21:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-03-14 22:10|| Front Page Top

#14 So when are we sending in the Hellfire armed Reapers?

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2010-03-14 23:38|| 2010-03-14 23:38|| Front Page Top

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