Just doing jobs that lazy Americans won't do.
Lots of news on Mexico today:
Warning to Marines: Stay Out of Mexico!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28662592/
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San Diego and southern California troops are being warned to stay out of Mexico.
A new U.S. Marine Corps policy is in effect restricting travel south of the border without prior approval. Officials with the U.S. Marine Corps said with the escalating violence in Mexico it’s just too dangerous for Marines.
Mission Valley resident Jimmy Gonzalez said he’s heard enough.
“The cartels that are just killing people. It’s just like a war down there… I have no drive to go down to Mexico because its just crazy down there. So I don’t want anyone else to go down there. It’s just out of hand down there,” Gonzalez said.
Alvarez, the 1 MEF spokesman, said service members cleared to travel to Mexico will be trained in safety precautions. They’ll also be required to carry certain phone numbers with them so they know who to contact in an emergency.
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Reality check for U.S.-Mexico relations
Obama may find Mexico and its drug war a compelling foreign policy issue.
[snip]Now it’s time to move beyond etiquette and face hard facts. Mexico is becoming a lawless country. More people died here in drug- related violence last year than were killed in Iraq. The government has been infiltrated by the mafias and drug cartels that it has vowed to combat.
U.S. not exempt from border violence
OUR OPINION: Mexican drug gangsters pose threat in this country
[snip]Last month, the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center reported that the same gangsters responsible for Mexico’s violence are taking root here. ‘’Mexican drug-trafficking organizations represent the greatest organized crime threat to the United States,’’ the report said. ``The influence of Mexican drug-trafficking organizations over domestic-drug trafficking is unrivaled.’’
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/850258.html