UPDATE: More from DRJ at Patterico.
Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey makes some trenchant observations about an article in The El Paso Times. The article details a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats that Mexico is one of two countries that "bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse," with the other country being Pakistan. Well done Mexico! You are neck and neck in a race to the bottom with a country even Mother Theresa would refuse to visit.
Writes Captain Ed:
How would the US protect itself from a warlord-ridden Mexico? We’d have to give serious consideration to arming the southern border to a far larger extent than any time in our history. Cross-border cooperation on drug smuggling would come to a halt, as we might find ourselves in a situation shown in the movie Traffic in which we wind up unwittingly allying with one cartel over another in the guise of official governmental contacts. And that’s not even mentioning the opportunities for terrorist groups to exploit lawless regions for their own purposes, right on our doorstep instead of half a world away.
In fact, a failed Mexico would quickly become our primary national-security concern. Immigration issues would become secondary, at best.
Most of his analysis is right on the money, but I would have to disagree with that last paragraph. Should Mexico truly become a failed state then immigration issues on Southern border would get dramatically worse than our current problem situation. We could expect wave upon wave of refugees that would make the current border realities pale in comparison.
Why hasn’t anyone in this country been pushing for a fence or anything on the southern border all these years?
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