Invade Mexico?
An Invitation To Disaster
Family Security Matters -- August 17
Alternatives for the U.S. Should Mexico Face the 'Worst Case Scenario'
Historical Precedence for Military Intervention
In October 1993, at the request of Congress, the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress published a report titled "Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993." The report contains a list, and brief explanation, of 234 situations that occurred between those years when American armed forces were used in situations of conflict or potential conflict, or for other than normal peacetime purposes. [...]
The United States-Mexico border is the only place where a powerful and prosperous First World country shares a land border with a country chronically struggling with endemic Third World problems. Cooperation between the two in dealing with the threats they now face, are already complicated by that proximity and by the nature of their disparity and history, perhaps to the point at which the United States can do little to help Mexico from weakening further, perhaps becoming a failed state or descending to the level of a narco-state, both of which would pose a variety of security threats to the United States that no American government could ignore. If that should happen, the lawful military actions discussed above may eventually be the only options available for reasonable self-defense.
 American Patrol Report Comment: This is an excellent summary of the situation in Mexico but it fails to convey an understanding of the link between the construction of border fencing and barriers and the Mexican drug war. Any military intervention without a full understanding of this relationship would doubtless be misguided and disastrous. |
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