SecState and Mexico

Over at the Foreign Policy blog, we have comments on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments on what is going on in Mexico.  The author, Robert Haddick, says:

I note that Clinton used the phrase "We [the United States] face an increasing threat ...," not "they [Mexico]."  The cartels are transnational shipping businesses, with consumers in the United States as their dominant market.  The clashes over shipping routes and distribution power -- which over the past four years have killed 28,000 and thoroughly corrupted Mexico's police and judiciary -- could just as well occur inside the United States.  Indeed, growing anxiety that southern Arizona is in danger of becoming a "no-go zone" controlled by drug and human traffickers contributed to the passage of Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement statute earlier this year.

I realize that Ms Clinton is a little out in front of the President on this, but she is not out in front of reality.

This is a growing problem, but I think I have said that before.

Who is paying attention to this in Government, Federal, State and Local?

Regards  —  Cliff