The Fallujah at Our Doorstep

A nice study break for those of you who, like myself, are freaking out over our final tomorrow:

One thing Mad Dog never mentioned (maybe because it wasn't as relevant in '04 as it is today) and for some reason the MSM seems to neglect as well (which I don't understand, it has everything ratings could ask for) is the Mexican drug war and the physical danger that can occur from an increasing Hispanization of the American Southwest. Since 2006 the drug war has begun to spiral completely out of control. I don't want to spew all of the facts (you can see the rest of them here), but the statistics are incredible. The L.A. Times estimates that 6,836 people have been murdered since the beginning of 2007 in Mexico's drug war. With all the talk about our troop deaths in Iraq (don't get me wrong, the deaths of our soldiers are to be greatly mourned), it's quite sad that no one has noticed the 1,200 people who have been murdered (in sometimes horrifying fashion) in Ciudad Juarez alone so far in 2008 (as of Dec. 3), just miles from El Paso, Texas.

An L.A. Times journalist who has covered the drug war for a while has noted an increase in crime overflowing into towns and cities on this side of the border, which can hardly be unexpected considering the number of immigrants (both legal and illegal) and visitors who travel between the two countries every day.

Thankfully, an excellent job has been done so far keeping the crime south of the Rio Grande (very few cartel-related deaths have been reported so far in El Paso or any other American border town), but how long can that possibly last?

And if Sarah Palin knows so much about foreign policy since she can see Russia from her house, shouldn't we know more about the danger that we can see from ours?