Stratfor Sources: U.S. Troops in Mexico as Feds Aid Cartels

New American ^ | Friday, 05 October 2012 13:00 | Alex Newman

[Cicero]

Yes, indeed. In fact, I am acquainted with someone who was high up in the CIA and Air America in Vietnam, although of course he never talked about it. His son once had a bit too much to drink at a barbecue, and boasted that his father (whose birthday it was) was on the board of Air America.

[DuncanWaring]

“Spooky Dude”.

[virgil]

How are the drugs coming from China?

[jonrick46]

I hope Romney hits Zer0 with our foreign policy failure with Mexico. The failure of our ability to contain the drugs coming over our border from Mexico is a evidence of that failure. Mexico has developed into a neighbor overrun by drug cartels instead of a government willing to cooperate in the drug war. Mexico is our southern neighbor and we should be able to do better than that.

[Axenolith]

Yes, legalize them, make sure the law abiding citizenry is armed, and leave the users to die in the streets if need be.

I for one am pretty fookin’ sick of sacrificing my liberties and convieniences for half assed stopgap corrupt bullshit like this. Boo freakin’ hoo if the “ER staffs are stretched” from scum, end EMTALA and let charities take care of drug use and violence victims after their stabilized or let em die.

This push-me-pull-you creeping authoritarian crap needs to end.

[jonrick46]

What if we cut off all their supply and let them go cold turkey. All heroin is gone.

Infect the crop with a genetic strain that makes all future crops unable to produce seed—like the genetically modified corn we hear about.

[phockthis]

sfl

[miele man]

Bump for later read.

[SaraJohnson]

Anyone who watched Columbia’s drug war slaughter knows what it means when the US picks a cartel to arm and advise for war against the other cartels. The lessor of two evil is evil. Corrpution is the result. It’s here in the US now. The cartel gun running has armed and empowered prefered drug dealers on oth sides of the border.

We are in third world trouble. Our own government has been set against us.

[crosslink]

I want to clear up a few things.This article was written after Stratfor had their database hacked last winter. In that breech the hackers copied all the internal emails that the company had sent to various sources. The hackers released all this information in a dump. Stratfor has never written any articles confirming or denying this information.

I am a member and just went to the site and searched for any article last week and found none.

I am not disputing any of this information in fact I think it's true. I just want to make sure everyone understands that it is not based on a Stratfor article published.

[Tomato lover]

Bump

[little jeremiah]

Better idea.

Execute all drug dealers.

Problem quickly solved.

[righttackle44]

Since when did Free Republic become Just Above Top Secret? Holy smokes, guys. Turn on your truth filters.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Huh? I didn't say anything about China although the synthetic stuff (i.e. "bath salts" & spice) probably has a lot of Chinese content, and trade routes would likely have it pass through Mexico.

[B4Ranch]

If you can convince the people to hang on through three weeks of sheer hell and turmoil while they come down off their addiction and /or start a new one, I suppose it would work. Or get the addicts to volunteer to be housed in a prison where we can administer some meds for the step down to reality. I don’t think you’ll succeed with either plan.

[MetaThought]

Yes, I was wondering about that. It seems kinda risky for a legitimate organization to publish information like this.

[MetaThought]

Well, all right then, you do that as your first act after becoming King. We can all go home and enjoy our drug free utopias right after. /

[virgil]

The map in #9 shows stuff coming into Mexico from China. Just wondered if you knew anymore about it. Interesting that China has a role in this. Brings memories of the Opium Wars.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Did not see that illustration earlier but from China came ephedra, which would be the key component of meth. I don't know if you are around one of the areas where that stuff has taken hold but I'm a lifelong Oregonian and it is a big deal there. At first, people learned how to make it at home cheap. The crowd I hung out with back in the day (before meth) are almost all dead because of it, I think I disassociated myself from that lifestyle in the nick of time 30-some years ago. I have many acquaintances and even some family up there who are struggling with it, very sad. It is worse than heroin in my opinion. And recent legislation only transferred the supply from local to Mexico, I think it actually expanded the market.

There is a lot of money to be followed but one thing is certain - this misery is NOT caused by U.S. guns!

[FlyingEagle]

Sinaloa were the recipients of the Fast and Furious gun shipments, many of which were paid with US taxpayer funds furnished to DEA informants as straw purchasers of the weapons.

Obama, Clinton, holder and Big Sis decided to back Sinaloa to see if the could control and profit from it.

Sinaloa is the biggest mega scale distributor of weed, coke and meth in Chicago.

However, the Zetas and Gulf cartels are not playing nice nor are the Templarios. No deals are in place, so violence is rampant in Mexico. I did not know US forces are engaged in the battles but it is no surprise.