US preparing integrated plan on Mexico drug war

[Bodhi]

Interesting article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN17499117

Some of these drugs just need to be made legal. Problem solved.

Here is a fun quote from the article:

"Sen. Jim Webb, a Virginia Democrat on the armed services panel, sought to underscore the complexity of the problem by saying that some drug traffickers are former Mexican soldiers trained by U.S. Special Forces."

[Lovecraftian4Paul]

Wouldn't surprise me. Mexico could really go up in a fireball this year and cause all sorts of instability just south of us.