Mexico's Drug War and Our Complicity

The Washington Post reports that 9 headless bodies were found near a busy road in southern Mexico, including several Mexican army troops. All of the bodies are believed to be casualties in Mexico’s increasingly violent drug war, which according to the Post has claimed around 5,800 lives so far this year. That’s more than two 9/11’s.

Condoleeza Rice, our oh-so-brilliant and effective Secretary of State (I nearly puked writing that) was in Mexico last week discussing the drug war. When asked whether she thought the Bush Administration’s decision in 2004 to let the US assault weapon ban expire (such guns are not sold anywhere in Mexico) had had any effect on the amount of weapons in Mexico, Rice said she didn’t think so.

Of course not. Because why would Mexican drug cartels cross the border, buy or steal readily-available assault weapons, and then use them to help kill other drug dealers and Mexican soldiers? That wouldn’t make any sense, would it?

Stupid, stupid, stupid.