The Galloping Beaver
"If we value our security, we must assist Mexico–providing aid for capacity building of police forces, improving intelligence support, and rebuilding its judiciary."
Typical (right-wing) cop stuff: send more cops with bigger guns, more spies with wider surveillance powers, more judges to give narcs and spooks that boost, and cuff everyone who isn't shot first for "resisting arrest".
(And we won't ask questions about how those cops get used when they _aren't_ being used against bandits.)
I like DNI for the thinking on 4GW and criticisms of the current structure of US militar(ism) they publish. But some of the writers tend to lean much too far into the US security paranoia mindset. They don't necessarily question US military interventionism and power, only it's current manifestation and construction. When Lind starts on about the perils of "cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt school" to western civilisation I just laugh and stop reading.
On Mexico, US security doesn't often pan out as intended. The mix of drugs and corruption in that place is systemic, and, like Afghanistan, no amount of security assistance is going to help because a cultural change needs to occur in the institutions of power in that country. And that I think is something that ought to happen through civil society, not external intervention.
No one, of course, will talk about the easiest and least costly solution - abandon the WAR ON DRUGS, legalize pot and treat drug addiction as a disease the way R. M. Nixon started to before he was co-opted by the nanny staters.
There will be no money to bribe Cops and Judges if it's not illegal.
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