If something is not done quickly about the situation in Mexico, theres really nothing we can do if it crosses over to the U.S. With an estimated twelve million illegals in this country, we don't even know where they are. The cartels are already supplying every state in the union with Marijuana, cocaine, and Meth. If this isn't a national security problem at our border, I don't know what is.

It;'s really a very personal article, expressing the author's regrets over paradise - or at least a nice place - lost, and the threats to some of its officials. What the article doesn't do is go into how Mexico really got there - and the losses in the Mexican war don't count! How did drugs and their gangs gain so much power? Why could this not be stopped when it was a small problem? And Secretary Gates is apparently thinking about extending the already unsuccessful wars on drugs from other Latino countries to Mexico - give me a break! Why should they work there any better than in Colombia or Bolivia?