tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2544860669469831075.post3916734662205576016..comments2023-03-24T19:35:13.387-07:00Comments on Deconstructing Mexico: Deconstructing Mexico (Literally)Kurt Hackbarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16980938040131834685noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2544860669469831075.post-64581280135800292402009-03-17T11:02:00.000-07:002009-03-17T11:02:00.000-07:00Kurt, I think your blogs are insightful but they d...Kurt, I think your blogs are insightful but they don't deal with the acutual issues. The U.S. was in the drug importation business long before Mexico had a constitution. It's about money, power and wealth and how to keep the peace between the rich and the rich at the expense of the poor and soon to be poor. So, dealing with the issus as reported by the news and even so called, Investigative Journalism, will not solve nor make these go away. Until Americans stop using, selling and transporting the drugs routed to the US and Canada, there is really no flag to rally 'round. <BR/>As you know I am researchng this to the max for my novel, A Place We Ought Not to Be and there is NO bottom to this barrel. Researching Alfred McCoy’s book, The Politics of Heroin and the CIA, Terry Reed’s book, Compromise and especially Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance (to mention a few) all show that arms, drugs and wars are usually about money, oil, food, water and geography and has nothing to do with morals, ethics or “Save the children, polar bears, trees, etc.”<BR/>We are giving Mexico (one country of a hundred examples) guns, tanks, bullets and bullet proof vests, and it's not to stop drugs, but rather to arm the side that supports US policy, Capitalism and intervention. There is no Drug War. There is a war between competing drug dealers for the US and Canadian markest and the Right Wing Conservatives (one group) in America and Canada know who they support. They support those who pay the 'right' prices. It's simply business, the same as prostitution isn't about sex at the cash register. It's about money. It’s a little like the movie, Charlie Wilson’s War. Everyone I spoke to seem to think that was a comedy. There was nothing funny about that movie and Obama is going into Afghanistan and will do about the same things the Russians did: Leave. Alanmorknme6https://www.blogger.com/profile/17269061226194019230noreply@blogger.com