Mexico’s Drug War Body Count — America's Unquenchable Thirst for Drugs

          The fact that 'More than 37,000 people have perished in the violence since President Felipe Calderon sent the military after the drug cartels in December 2006. Despite the growing tally of victims, Calderon insists on staying the course with a tenacity worthy of George W. Bush and his misguided crusade in Iraq' alone would make reading 'Mexico’s Drug War Body Count Mounts | The National Interest Blog' a sad affair—these are civilians not military forces with the means to defend themselves!!

        Our failure to forget that Prohibition's legacy was violence and corruption makes this tragedy even more despairing—it's purely and simply a waste of resources and lives driven by our insatiable appetite for drugs and our hypocrisy.
         The latest mass grave is just a two hour drive from here—we are fools to believe this level of chaos can be contained by a border wall—that the destruction of Mexico, the subversion of its fragile economy and society, will not leave a deep wound that will impact our country.
          The so-called 'War on Drugs' has already poured precious American resources into an endless sinkhole with no measurable results (look at the DEA 'statistics' & have a good laugh at their lack of effectiveness, which always calls for more resources as a remedy), shifted law-enforcement into SWAT teams that invade American homes, and diverted police efforts from investigating and solving crime to the more glamorous 'War on Drugs'.