Border Wall or Drones? U.S.-Mexico Anti-Drug Team

Mar 17, 2011
Mary Thankam Walker

Global Hawk Drone - AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

As drug war casualties in Mexico rise, the U.S. responds with surveillance back-up in the form of unarmed drones.

If drug warlords could be stopped, then the amount of time, labor, money, and U.S. property laws being stretched to build a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico could be spared. Collaboration between Mexico and the U.S. tables issues of sovereignty in favor of the accomplishment of what both Presidents see as a greater cause: catching the narcotics criminals.

Mutual interest Helps Team the U.S. & Mexico

A primary interest for the U.S. while protecting its borders is to stop the trafficking of illegal drugs like marijuana and meth. Despite the classic political cry of nations to maintain sovereignty and not have affairs meddled with by other nations, Mexico finds the death toll resulting from drug wars rising too high and too fast to reject help from the U.S.

The same types of drugs are illegal in Mexico, as well, and although portions of each country’s population are voicing the idea of decriminalizing drugs to decrease the motivation of criminal leaders, the respective legal systems are more reluctant. So, Mexico fielded the front lines with police and military but to little avail. The U.S. decided to build a wall in an effort to prevent immigration and the movement of drugs across the border, but this has turned out to be quite the burden to complete construction especially with questionable expectations for the wall’s success.

When the U.S. secretly surveyed Mexican lands using drones to help catch drug trafficking criminals with successful tips turned over to the Mexican government, President Felipe Calderón came to an agreement with President Barack Obama. Drones will be flown not only on the U.S.-Mexico border, but even deep into Mexico to survey the land for wanted suspects. The U.S. drones sent by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will not be armed with any weaponry.

Hopeful Results

March 3, 2011, after negotiations and reconciling the terms of Mexico’s constitution with its shaky trust in the U.S. motivations as well as U.S. officials doubting the reliability of partnering with Mexican officials reputed for corruption, an agreement to allow U.S. drones to help came to pass.

Drones are capable of gazing over areas up to 40,000 square miles. Global Hawk Drones have become not only a welcome help but a requested one. That Mexico now officially requests U.S. aid, the idea of sovereignty is less of an issue and indicates that Mexican officials trust that they are acting within the bounds of their constitution. Neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the Department of Defense will reveal how many Global Hawk drones have been in use or will be in use. It has been revealed that gains into knowledge over and steps towards capturing wanted criminals have resulted from the use of drones. Specifically, it has helped Mexico capture drug cartel members that had a connection to the murder of United States Immigration/Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata who had been killed in February.

National security of both nations, citizens plagued by the consequences of drugs on both sides of the border, and the ravaging of regions by drug cartels challenging the authority of any legal governance has helped two neighboring nations forge allegiances to conquer a threat together instead of apart.

Sources

El Paso Times www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_17631672?_requestid=294292

New York Times www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/americas/16drug.html

Mary Thankam Walker - Mary T. Walker

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May 7, 2011 12:06 AM

Guest :

The drug wars in Mexico until recently have been males killing males but what else is new. That has been the story throughout history. Even in the United States, 90% of all murders are by someone with testicles. The only good thing is that they usually kill someone with testicles too.

There have been over 32,000 deaths in the Mexican drug wars and until recently, almost all of them have been male. If we could assure that ALL future deaths would be MALE and only those involved with drugs, I would say we should encourage the wars and let these males kill each other off.

We need to go back to the old way of fighting wars where men would face other men in battlefields far away from civilians. This would result in males only being killed which is far better than having women and children killed. I would much rather see tens of thousands of women made widows than to have a thousand males made widowers as I do not think any women or children should be killed in the wars males want to fight. Since males are so good at killing, let them kill each other and leave women and children out of it. Russia lost half of its male population in WW 2 and did just fine. In fact, I think they did better as women than had the chance to prove they are actually superior to the males in that far more became doctors, scientist and took leading roles in many fields that were male only. The more chances women get, the more they show they can and are surpassing males in almost every area. Even though I am a male, I see solid evidence that women are far superior to males and we also know that males are actually far more expendable as a whole than women as Russia losing half its male population and doing just fine showed.

I do think that when a lot of males are killed in these wars, there should be help given to the women left behind because they should not have to suffer for not having the things necessary for life when the males get finished killing each other off. Maybe if enough males eliminate each other, wars will stop. Until then, let it be males only and keep women and children out of it.

May 11, 2011 12:59 AM

Guest :

As a woman I have to admit I am surprised to read "Even though I am a male, I see solid evidence that women are far superior to males" but I am also happy to see a male admit it. I am not as surprised to see that he says we should only kill males in wartime as I know a lot of other males that have expressed relieve when after hearing about a lot of people being killed that they later learn that all of those killed were males. Many males have said they were glad no women were killed and that they were all males. (I guess not all males are pricks after all but I do know far too many who think with the head in their cocks rather than the one on top of their shoulder)

May 13, 2011 2:41 AM

Guest :

If we could assure that ALL future deaths would be MALE and only those involved with drugs, I would say we should encourage the wars and let these males kill each other off.

I fully agree with that above statement but it is easy for me to say because I am a woman. That being said, my husband and brothers fully agree with it as they all say that women should never be harmed in wars

They all have said that the war on Terror will never be won unless we kill ALL the el Quaid and Taliban MALES. Well actually, to put it bluntly and say it the way they said it, if they have a pair of balls, kill them. I even know a couple of men who think that if we go to war with some nation, we should kill all the males to keep them from starting another war with us. I am not sure how males could advocate the killing of so many other males. Guess it may be something in the water.

May 16, 2011 8:19 PM

Guest :

Someone said another article that we should use psychopaths in war. I submitted this comment there and I will here too as it does apply. I am not sure if you agree with our reasoning that women are the superior gender so why risk them in wars and this is why I strongly agree with the comment here that only males should be used in war and that the only ways to stop them would be to either eliminate most of the male population or let women take full and total control of society so we can clean up the mess males have made. I personally do not care which route they want to take but I guess if half the male population killed each other off, women would take control anyway

It makes sense to use psychopaths for war. They love to kill and they usually like to kill other males I say other males because most of the psychopaths are male.

Several of the men I work with have said that the war on terror will not be over until they kill ALL the al Qaeda and Taliban MALES. That is what war is usually about, males killing males but, well one more example, there was a car wreck a while ago near us where 5 men were killed. Both my brothers said at least it was all males.

Of course, as a woman, I am glad no women are killed but what is it about men that they so readily endorse the killing of other men simply because they are male? It does seem to be a male thing as I have read in history that often when one nation conquered another nation, they would kill ever male of the defeated nation. Sometimes it seems like psychopath and male have the same definition. My husband said I should be glad that they usually kill other males (and I am but I wonder why first of all many males like to kill and why other males most often? Of course, my husband said that this is just one of hundreds of reasons why women are superior to males and I certainly will not argue with him about that. One of the few things he is right about LOL

Jun 1, 2011 1:12 AM

Guest :

I was watching Family Feud recently and one of the questions was "What do little GIRLS do better then little BOYS.

The top answer was: EVERYTHING! I agree with this. There is nothing males can do better than women or girls because women and girls are the superior gender and even Family Feud know girls are superior to boys.

I would love to see them ask a follow up question "What can women do better than men" Of course the best answer to that would be EVERYTHING too. If they asked what can men do better than women, the answer should be NOTHING because males can't even keep up with women anymore.

PS It may suprise you that I am a male who firmly believes women are far superior to us males.

Jun 23, 2011 1:03 AM

Guest :

It is nice to see more males who can admit that women are superior to the males. We see this throughout nature also. For example, the mosquito shows the female is superior too. The male lives for only a week while the female lives twice as long. Another interesting thing is that it is only the female that bites but only the male buzzes. It is almost as if the male buzzes to make sure the female is able to bite because the male distracts the person bitten as they are looking for the mosquito that is buzzing while she bites him. Of course, this means the male is killed most often as the female slips away. Just one more of thousands of examples in nature where the male is expendable and often the males die earlier so that the females can live longer.

We can also see so many times in nature that the females can usually outperform the males in many of the things that species does. We certainly can see that women today are outperforming males in almost every area. I think the sooner we human males can accept and acknowledge that women are superior to us males the sooner we can accept women being in control of society and this would make the world a much better place. I am one male who thinks women should be in total control over every area because women are overwhelmingly superior to males

Jul 10, 2011 7:09 AM

Guest :

The Wall Street Journal has an article called "The War on Girls" It points out that since 1970 over 163 million girls have been aborted by parents seeking sons. Why anyone would want to abort someone that would be far superior to a male is beyond me.
It goes on to say "In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that's as far as the natural window goes. Any other number is the result of unnatural events.
Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark."
The author states that "such imbalances are portents of Very Bad Things to come. "Historically, societies in which men substantially outnumber women are not nice places to live," she writes. "Often they are unstable. Sometimes they are violent."
Should it be any surprise? The more MALES we have, the worse society becomes? Maybe The S.C.U.M. Manifesto by Valerie Jean Solanas is right. Maybe the best way to cure our problems is to eliminate at least half of the MALE population! After all, if we have a barrel of apples, we do not throw the good apples out to get rid of the rotten ones and in humans, the rotten apples are far more often the MALES. Yes, sometimes we have to throw out some good ones to get all the bad ones but as long as they have testicles, that is fine with me. At least it will be safe for all women and girls since half of the males will be gone. And some wonder why many of us know that women are the superior sex and males are by far the inferior sex.

One thing we know from this article (War on girls) is that there are fewer wars and much less violence when there are far fewer males then women. Would that not tell us the problem is not because of women but because of those who are inferior to women because they have a a PENIS and TESTICLES and the MALE brain that goes with them.

Jul 14, 2011 2:25 AM

Guest :

The Wall Street Journal has an article called "The War on Girls" It points out that since 1970 over 163 million girls have been aborted by parents seeking sons. Why anyone would want to abort someone that would be far superior to a male is beyond me.
It goes on to say "In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that's as far as the natural window goes. Any other number is the result of unnatural events. There is nothing to be ashamed of because women and not us males are superior.
Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark."
The author states that "such imbalances are portents of Very Bad Things to come. "Historically, societies in which men substantially outnumber women are not nice places to live," she writes. "Often they are unstable. Sometimes they are violent."
Should it be any surprise? The more MALES we have, the worse society becomes? Maybe The S.C.U.M. Manifesto by Valerie Jean Solanas is right. Maybe the best way to cure our problems is to eliminate at least half of the MALE population! After all, if we have a barrel of apples, we do not throw the good apples out to get rid of the rotten ones and in humans, the rotten apples are far more often the MALES. Yes, sometimes we have to throw out some good ones to get all the bad ones but as long as they have testicles, that is fine with me. At least it will be safe for all women and girls since half of the males will be gone. And some wonder why many of us know that women are the superior sex and males are by far the inferior sex.

One thing we know from this article (War on girls) is that there are fewer wars and much less violence when there are far fewer males then women. Would that not tell us the problem is not because of women but because of those of us who are inferior because we have a PENIS and TESTICLES as well as a MALE brain that goes with them?

Jul 30, 2011 10:28 PM

Guest :

There is one article in Suite101 that ask "How do you know if you are dating a jerk"

I like this question but a better question would be "How do you know if you are dating a prick" and the answer would be that he has a prick!

I do agree with almost every comment that article that states that women are the superior gender and much of this is because most men are pricks who thinks with their dick the moment he gets a hard on.

Well, I have an answer for anyone I date who thinks that just because he has an erection, I am ready to lay down for him. A good swift kick in his balls hard enough to make him want to spit out his nuts will make his cock go limp real fast. Oh, there is a very good reason for the adage "If you have him by his BALLS he will obey you. When you have a man by his balls (literally and figuratively) they will often stop being pricks. It would be nice to have the "Nut Cracker Suite" playing in the background has you are cracking the two little nuts swinging between his legs

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Border Wall or Drones? U.S.-Mexico Anti-Drug Team

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