It’s about bloody time. Calderón is still rattling his saber, hoping his party gets reelected, but the failure of the drug war is as plain as the nose on his face.

NYT:

The inability to control the violence, with fresh horrors nearly every week, has rattled even some admirers in the United States Congress, who have begun to question publicly whether Mr. Calderón’s strategy — supported by the $1.4 billion in anticrime aid the United States is providing through the multiyear Merida Initiative — is making progress.

“I admire him for taking them head on, which is a very dangerous thing to do,” said Representative Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican on the House Committee on Homeland Security. “He is the first president to confront the problem and do something about it. But has it been 100 percent successful? Not at all. It seems to keep getting worse.”

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“He has not been able, maybe because it has been very difficult to impossible, to explain to Mexicans why the security fight is worth fighting,” said Luis de la Calle, Mexico’s under secretary for international trade from 1999 to 2002.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

3 replies on “Even Republicans Are Questioning the Efficacy of the Drug War”

  1. I only have one thing to say: “bag of heads”
    drug addiction is a public health problem, not a moral/criminal problem, until we face that it’s never going to get better.

  2. What is Calderon supposed to do? Relinquish sovereignty over a swath of his country to armed criminal syndicates? He, an his constituents, are at the mercy of our failure of a drug war; they’ve got a real war to contend with.

  3. Mexico can take care of itself.
    Afghanistan can take care of itself.
    Iraq can take care of itself.

    Bring ALL the troops home and #endthewars now.

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