Huffington Post reported recently , "During a joint news conference at the White House, [US President] Obama praised [Mexican President Felipe] Calderon for his "extraordinary courage" in fighting the violent drug cartels that have been responsible for deaths on both sides of the border. Obama pledged to speed up U.S. aid to train and equip Mexican forces to help in those efforts, but he also acknowledged that the U.S. must stem the flow of cash and guns to Mexico that have aided the cartels. "We are very mindful that the battle President Calderon is fighting inside of Mexico is not just his battle, it's also ours," Obama said. "We have to take responsibility just as he's taken responsibility.""
As a friend once emailed, "Our addictions to cars, addictions to drugs...keeps our foreign policy out of whack as we've always gotta' invade to secure the oil for continuing our consumption...and invade to destroy the drug producing countries to stop our consumption."
The congress can always tweak the stretched US Federal budget to fund guns and troops but what about spending to heal our addiction to energy and drugs?
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