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Today on Meet the Press, Defense Secretary Gates was asked about Mexico. There really isn't much he can say from an official standpoint. He tells NBC that the U.S. will offer training and seems to be supporting Calderon. Unfortunately a military build up to help one side over the other will only escalate things. The reality is that training isn't going to help, because as all of Mexico is aware, the drug war is between two cartels, each of whom is being supported by a major faction from the upper levels of Mexican government (PRI vs PAN). The situation is extremely complicated.
Two things might help 1) for a George Mitchell to broker some type of peace between the factions and 2) for some type of firm directive in the U.S. that would reduce arms sales to Mexico and decrease drug consumption - remember that Americans are the ones that keep the cartels in business.
- see also "The War We Gave Mexico," Los Angeles Times, February 28, 2009
- for those who read Spanish "Colima: Todos están en el narco," Proceso, March 1, 2009, Edition 1687.
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