Drug Czar Tells Cartels to Surrender or Die
If the traffickers donât surrender soon, drug czar John Walters will kill them with his bare hands:
Walters then pulled a hand grenade from his vest and destroyed a speeding SUV from 100 yards away.
U.S. drug czar John P. Walters, in Mexico City to reassure officials that aid to fight drug gangs is in the pipeline, said traffickers resort to "fear and horror" in their campaign to take over government institutions but will ultimately fail.
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Ultimately, he said, the drug lords will face a stark choice: "They surrender, or they die." [LA Times]
Walters then pulled a hand grenade from his vest and destroyed a speeding SUV from 100 yards away.
More Drug War = More Violence
Look how AFP frames the spike in drug trade violence plaguing Mexico:
Very obviously, none of this is happening despite Calderonâs crackdown. The violence is caused by the crackdown, directly and unambiguously, in every imaginable sense. When Calderon pledged to increase drug enforcement efforts, the violence increased dramatically. Thatâs not an opinion, itâs whatâs happened right before our eyes.
AFP sees irony in the fact that the violence has increased during a drug war crackdown, as though the logical assumption is that an aggressive drug war would reduce violence. It wonât, it never has, and it never will no matter what. The drug war will not make peace. It wonât change the weather, either. And it wonât make you a sandwich. All it will ever do is cause violence. Just watch.
MEXICO CITY (AFP) â Almost 400 people have died in the past two weeks in an intensifying drugs war in Mexico despite a government crackdown on cartels, trafficking and related violence.
Very obviously, none of this is happening despite Calderonâs crackdown. The violence is caused by the crackdown, directly and unambiguously, in every imaginable sense. When Calderon pledged to increase drug enforcement efforts, the violence increased dramatically. Thatâs not an opinion, itâs whatâs happened right before our eyes.
AFP sees irony in the fact that the violence has increased during a drug war crackdown, as though the logical assumption is that an aggressive drug war would reduce violence. It wonât, it never has, and it never will no matter what. The drug war will not make peace. It wonât change the weather, either. And it wonât make you a sandwich. All it will ever do is cause violence. Just watch.