The "state" of Mexico

"If someone asked me to sum up Mexico in one word, that word would be 'mess'. They are a lousy neighbor. They are a petri dish for drug traffic. And don't get me started on human trafficking. We can clean up Mexico, and they don't even need to thank us for doing it."   

Just what kind of state is Mexico right now? Or what "state" is it in? Is it a narco-state? A failed state? Or is it in a state of confusion? Or is it just a mess. A lawless empire. The wild, wild west. Whatever ails Mexico, is now seeping over the border, as well as putting our citizens in danger when they visit Mexico.

Yesterday, someone from the State Department said we should consider the entire country of Mexico as being "Code Red". There is no place in Mexico which is safe. Not border towns, not the sea ports, no place. When we were cruising back from Hawaii in December, the last stop was a Mexican port. We stayed on the ship.

Of the 110,000 drug deaths in the United States last year, it is estimated that 70,000 were from Fentanyl. Fentanyl coming from China and then into Mexico, and then smuggled over the border. And what are we doing about it? Nothing. Our President, who is the worst President in the history of Presidents, has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to this mega problem. Meanwhile, a man I was doing some volunteer work with yesterday, told me he recently lost his oldest daughter to Fentanyl poisoning. Yes, Fentanyl has found its way from Mexico, all the way up to the sleepy little town I live in.

Now comes the hard part. Lindsey Graham and others, want to light up the cartels using the full force and might of our military. We have involved our military before, when the narco-thugs were using Columbia as their base of operations. It worked. When my wife and I visited Columbia a few years ago, many of the locals were telling us how wonderful Columbia is to live in now, that the drugs were gone. Where did the drugs all go? Try Mexico.

What would I do, if I were President? First, lock down the border, tighter than a drum. The fact that Mexico is a huge trading partner is too dang bad. Then I would send the drones over the border, loaded with Hellfire missiles. If Mexico cannot deal with their drug problem, we will do it for them. We don't need to send it troops - our drones do the job just fine, thank you.

If someone asked me to sum up Mexico in one word, that word would be "mess". They are a lousy neighbor. They are a petri dish for drug traffic. And don't get me started on human trafficking. We can clean up Mexico, and they don't even need to thank us for doing it.