TIERRA DE LOS SUEÑOS - cosmopolitanglobalist.com/tierra-de-los-… One of our readers writes, " The cartels? We [the US] and our weakness for drugs – are the wellspring from which the cartels flow. And we are too weak to do anything about it." I've heard this before:
and I suspect it's partly right--obviously, it doesn't help that the US is the biggest multi-trillion dollar drug suck in the world. But I suspect that even if we turned abstinent overnight, these guys wouldn't say, "Gee, business is lousy" and become peaceful sugarcane farmers.
They'd just flow into every other domain of organized crime (as they have already): human trafficking, extortion, arms smuggling...there's always enough sin in the world to support organized crime. So I'm not as inclined as our reader to blame the US for all of Mexico's problems,
even though, in this case, the charge is more credible than it usually is, and there's more real moral responsibility than the standard claim of "It's all the Americans' fault" would have it. This involves a massive breakdown at the Mexico level, too:
Canada didn't become a narco-state in response to our enthusiasm for drugs, and for the most part, neither did we--or at least, we maintained a more diversified economy and managed to keep most of the country out of the hands of the cartels.
The problem in Mexico is, clearly, a combination of its northern neighbor's insatiable demand for drugs *and* pathological state weakness. You need both to have this kind of state collapse.
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