Heads up Mexico, you're the next in line for invasion

[Anti Federalist]

Heads Up, Mexico: You May be Next

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2011/04/heads-up-mexico-you-may-be-next.html

The time has come, insists Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), "for the U.S. to show serious commitment to war in our own backyard."

It's shamefully narrow-minded of Washington to confer the blessings of humanitarian mass murder on distant Bedouins while ignoring our Mestizo neighbors to the South. McCaul, a former federal prosecutor who now chairs the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, is eager to help rectify that inequity by designating six Mexican drug syndicates -- including Los Zetas, which is led by U.S.-trained military personnel -- as "foreign terrorist organizations."

This would permit deportation or prosecution of anyone providing "support" to the narcotics syndicates. Of course, this wouldn't apply to the public officials in the United States responsible for the huge narcotics price support program called the "War on Drugs."

Much more at link...

[Zippyjuan]

What does Mexico have that we would want? Yes, we import oil from Mexico but their production is declining and so are their exports. They could become a net exporter in less than a decade. That is the major source of revenue for the government and loss of it could mean political turmoil.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/business/global/09pemex.html

Pemex, is entering a period of turmoil. Oil production in its aging fields is sagging so rapidly that Mexico, long one of the world’s top oil-exporting countries, could begin importing oil within the decade.

Mexico is among the three leading foreign suppliers of oil to the United States, along with Canada and Saudi Arabia. Mexican barrels can be replaced, but at a cost. It means greater American dependence on unfriendly countries like Venezuela, unstable countries like Nigeria and Iraq, and on the oil sands of Canada, an environmentally destructive form of oil production.

“As you lose Mexican oil, you lose a critical supply,” said Jeremy M. Martin, director of the energy program at the Institute of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego. “It’s not just about energy security but national security, because our neighbor’s economic and political well-being is largely linked to its capacity to produce and export oil.”

[Anti Federalist]

What does Mexico have that we would want? Yes, we import oil from Mexico but their production is declining and so are their exports. They could become a net exporter in less than a decade. That is the major source of revenue for the government and loss of it could mean political turmoil.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/business/global/09pemex.html

Stock answer: to prevent and preempt that turmoil by taking control now.

Real answer: To gain the upper hand in the drug supply market.

[South Park Fan]

Has he not read about the last time the US invaded Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition) to combat "turrists"?

[ExPatPaki]

Didn't Pat Buchanan say that this was bound to happen?