12 Jun 2012: Mexico Smartens Up
There is more and more reasonable thinking coming out of the south. Watching the United States over the past two decades, I've gotten a really good idea of why empires fall: they get stupid. When you're rich, you can do things that don't make sense. Countries like Mexico can't. Their policies have to work. From the New York Times:The top three contenders for Mexico ’s presidency have all promised a major shift in the country’s drug war strategy, placing a higher priority on reducing the violence in Mexico than on using arrests and seizures to block the flow of drugs to the United States.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the United States won't use its power to force Mexico to continue their stupid policy. After all, that's why they had the policy in the first place.
America's drug problem—whatever it decides that might be—is just that: America's drug problem. It needs to solve it and stop forcing other countries to destroy themselves in the name of solving it.
