Protect Our Border. Save Lives

We have spent untold billions, trillions? on the war to protect oil supplies. Many would say that action is justified because in protecting our supply lines we help protect our way of life and therefore the security of our nation. But what about our nation's security in view of the escalating crime and violence found in our border neighbor to the south? The stories we hear coming out of Mexico makes be fear for those friends I have made there in years past. Our nation's security is surely threatened by this brutal behavior. Americans have personally invested in Mexico in the form of real estate and monetary support for organizations that aide the very poorest in that country. Millions of Americans were vacationing in places like Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta but no longer. Cabo San Lucas is still considered safe that will cease to be the case soon. I have a good friend who is a native of Mazatlan. She had a business giving cultural tours for cruise ship tourists and it was a good business. She told me once that she had plenty of money, enough to live comfortably in the U.S. but she would not leave her home in Mexico to do so. She said far too many educated Mexicans had fled the country already leaving less to run the government properly. This was two years ago and even then she feared things were going to get far worse. She was right. It is clear to me that if the U.S. has a responsibility to the world and it's own people to take over and occupy nations halfway around the world, we have the same responsibility in Mexico. We must send in peacekeeping forces in large numbers and do it as soon as possible. It is unfortunate that the culture of corruption that rules every part of Mexico has been allowed to continue until it has made what was once a developing, progressive neighbor a threat that we must deal with.