US training Mexican troops
The Washington Post reports that the US military is training Mexican troops to fight in the drug wars south of our borders. The curious part of the story is this;
U.S. military officials have been hesitant to discuss publicly their growing ties with Mexico, for fear of triggering a backlash among a Mexican public wary of interference.
Do the Mexican public really think that we want to invade? Seriously? For what? We don’t have enough dusty shit holes in our own country? Why should we invade when the whole Mexican nation is trying to move here.
The last time we sent troops to Mexico was in 1916 when Pancho Villa assaulted some border towns in the US. Before that it was 1846 when Mexican troops tried to claim parts of Texas on the north side of the Rio Grande.
The lesson, I suppose, is that if you don’t want US troops in Mexico, you should keep your shit on the south side of the border.
Category: Foreign Policy
I’d wager that there is a good chance we have troops in contact south of the border within five years.
If you count what’s been done in Central and South America, we’ve already been “in contact south of the border” for the last 30 years…
And if we take Mexico, what in hell are we going to DO with it???
My bad, I meant having BCT’s south of the border, not Operators or DEA guys.
As far as what to do with it, same as Iraq, basically … with a much higher probability of success, IMO, re: proximity so logistics issues are minimal, quasi-Christian, sort of like America is right now, Imbeciles in charge, sort of like America right now …
I’m not advocating it, I’m only stating that I would be very unsurprised at any major military moves south within the next five years. Their government makes ours look like the Church Ladies Tea, wrt corruption and that ain’t going to work in the long term.
I’ve always thought we were going about Mexico all wrong. I say annex it; make it the 51st state (NOT a protectorate). Then the Mexicans really become American citizens…and get to pay taxes like the rest of us! And we get all that new economic potential, all that oil, and all that tequila!
Have I missed anything?
Dude, you forgot the ceviche with prawns the size of bananas! 🙂