Source: Mullen offers Obama update on Mexico

Obama was briefed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen about the drug wars going on in Mexico over that last few months. He was also thinking of ways that the U.S. can help out the Mexican military leaders. Mullen called the recent drug wars in Mexico a crisis. So far this year around 1,000 people have been killed and last year over 6,000 people killed. Both Canada and the U.S. say that with the wars happening so close to the U.S.-Mexican border that there is some cause for alarm. Also just last month, in the U.S. there were 700 people arrested, they were linked to Mexican drug cartels.

I agree with Liz on this issue. We don't need to send our military to handle this, but we could help them by giving them so pointers on how to handle this in Mexico. The U.S. can't afford to be in two different wars, one in Iraq and the other in Mexico. It would be better if we stayed out with the military. But we can have some people go and talk to the Mexican government and help them figure out how to handle it. As Liz said, so many U.S. citizens travel to Mexico for vacation and we don't want them to get mixed up in something like this. Because they border us we need to make sure that the people here and in Mexico who are U.S. citizens are safe, and not dead. You never know what will happen if you are traveling in the heart of Mexico. We also need to protect the states that are bordering Mexico, some of the drug leaders can come up and start one right in our country.


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