We are witnessing the first real protracted battles of the War on Terrorism in our Hemisphere.

Your mission, should you accept, is to go read War Zone USA. Here's a taste...

It is time that we wake up America! The Rio Grande Valley along the Texas-Mexican border is a war zone…and it is going to be a battlezone for freedom if we are not careful. If the battles between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels aren’t enough to scare the crap out of you (along with the viciousness of the Gulf Cartels’ henchmen, Los Zetas), then examine more closely the gunning down of Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez. As the public face of the Mexican government’s war on drugs, his being killed on the doorstep of his apartment in Mexico City, no less, holds in it the risk that the cartels will be emboldened (see Washington Post article). We are witnessing the first real protracted battles of the War on Terrorism in our Hemisphere.

“This could have a snowball effect, even leading to the risk of ungovernability,” Luís Astorga, a Mexico City-based sociologist and drug expert, said in an interview. “It indicates terrible things, a level of weakness in our institutions — they can’t even (continue reading at Stormwarning's Counterterrorism Blog)

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Comments

[Stormwarning]

Yes, you did, and very well, thank you! and I appreciate it alot...I really do! There is an old adage about a trough, I think. LOL. I'm on travel the whole week.

[Debbie]

Well, I tried.

[Stormwarning]

Thanks Debbie. I appreciate the attempt. I'm out of town with limited access until tomorrow. Seems few took a look before it self-destructed. Funny about the 10-9-8-7...I laughed when I saw that...truly :)