The Threat Grows
Gang Threat Could Top Al Qaeda
Wired Magazine : Noah Shachtman : November 17th 2008
Summary:
John Sullivan, a Lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is reporting that the drug cartels on the US/Mexican border have clearly abandoned a co-option and corruption approach to dealing with the Mexican government, and have shifted to all out violence in order to secure safe havens of operation within the Mexican state. Mexico is now embroiled in a ‘criminal insurgency'. The violence from this war has spread north and is used by gangs such as MS-13, who operate as partners and foot soldiers for the drug cartels. These criminal cartels have access to weapons, finance, a US domestic support network, making them far more threatening to US national security than Al Qaeda.
Comment:
John Sullivan is spot on. Increasing violence along the Mexican border is well documented, and is now spreading into cities like Houston and Phoenix, which have seen an increase in crimes like kidnapping. This is likely a result of limited resources and attention being given to secure our southern “border”, which among other things, originates with at media highly sympathetic to illegal aliens and unwilling to recognize the catastrophic downsides of this issue. Looking forward, there is no foreseeable reason for this trend to diminish. The new administration will no doubt continue the status quo, making no serious efforts to protect the geographic integrity of the nation. As do all businesses, the cartels will continue try to achieve dominance of their distribution chains, which are in all US cities. Expect these kinds of violence, kidnappings and decapitations to start occurring in the larger drug markets.
Link:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/john-p-sullivan.html
Wired Magazine : Noah Shachtman : November 17th 2008
Summary:
John Sullivan, a Lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is reporting that the drug cartels on the US/Mexican border have clearly abandoned a co-option and corruption approach to dealing with the Mexican government, and have shifted to all out violence in order to secure safe havens of operation within the Mexican state. Mexico is now embroiled in a ‘criminal insurgency'. The violence from this war has spread north and is used by gangs such as MS-13, who operate as partners and foot soldiers for the drug cartels. These criminal cartels have access to weapons, finance, a US domestic support network, making them far more threatening to US national security than Al Qaeda.
Comment:
John Sullivan is spot on. Increasing violence along the Mexican border is well documented, and is now spreading into cities like Houston and Phoenix, which have seen an increase in crimes like kidnapping. This is likely a result of limited resources and attention being given to secure our southern “border”, which among other things, originates with at media highly sympathetic to illegal aliens and unwilling to recognize the catastrophic downsides of this issue. Looking forward, there is no foreseeable reason for this trend to diminish. The new administration will no doubt continue the status quo, making no serious efforts to protect the geographic integrity of the nation. As do all businesses, the cartels will continue try to achieve dominance of their distribution chains, which are in all US cities. Expect these kinds of violence, kidnappings and decapitations to start occurring in the larger drug markets.
Link:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/john-p-sullivan.html
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