As others have said, the answer to this is ‘they aren’t passive’. They are fighting hard, and under some fairly heavy duty handicaps. Corruption being one of them, to be sure, but the other is that the cartels have a LOT of money to throw at the ‘war’, which means they are going to be much more effective than run of the mill and disorganized criminals. Think of the Mob during Prohibition, then ask why OUR police and military were so ‘passive’.
Then you haven’t been paying attention, or you are getting your facts from people who haven’t been. The police and especially the military hold their own fine against the cartels.
The trouble is that America is happy to spend hundreds of millions on the War on Drugs if it involves shooting people and sticking them in jail because many people think killing ‘bad’ people and putting ‘bad’ people in prison represents good value for money. The same people simply wouldn’t like to see their tax dollar being spent on the kind of social services and education that could have a propper impact because those bad people don’t deserve something for nothing (unless it’s bullets or bars on the windows)
And this is especially true if the people getting killed are not Americans. Who gives a damn if a Mexican family gets gunned down in a crossfire or by mistake? Ask Curtis Lemay.
What is your definition of good is in disagreement with theirs? Corruption exists in every country. Read about the Detroit police department and their problems. Should Canadian Mounties cross the border and straighten out the Detroit Corruption?
All over America we have corrupt city governments. Lets fix those first.
You need to both get a new nationality and not start posts based on nothing but the imaginary world in your head.
Anyone who feels able to start a thread with this title and subject should be informed enough on the subject to - in this case- know that the entire premise of passivity is a misconception.
Do some fact checking or something before posting.
Exactly. And whilst I believe in the total legalization of all drugs on the grounds that it is not anyone’s place to regulate most pleasures, and because I have no cares about people killing themselves whilst not harming others ( some of my best friends are druggies, but if they off themselves it’s just another little grave in the west ), I strongly disagree with those who argue that legalization will reduce crime; anymore than ending prohibition meant the gangsters repented and went into honest employment. There are a lot of unpleasant people prone to violence, fraud and theft in the world: closing one door opens a window for them.
And yet, there is no issue of black market Tequila coming over the border, and not a soul has died in a war between tobacco cartels. Why? Could it be these things are LEGAL and thus more easily controlled?
It seems that the ‘leaders’ of the cartels are not fighting back as much when it they are found/caught by military/Police forces. Maybe because the government was so aggressive overall that word kinda got around about it. Here’s a story with some quotes from Navy spokesman and how it appears that the upper-level bad guys see fighting the ‘govt forces’ as a poor choice nowadays.
Definitely no lack of violence against others, though - not at all.
An oft-published journalist has spent a considerable amount of time in Juarez, Mexico and written a book called Murder City, about the connection between the drug cartels and the global economy.
He makes some observations which may answer your question.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
We need to fix things in our own country and society before we start interfering with other countries and societies. We’ve got plenty of our own problems that we should be taking care of.
Like the US has ever really cared about the welfare of México. I 'd like to know how SO many shipments of illegal drugs cross your border every day? Why are your police and military so passive in stopping this?
Is America perfect? Of course not. But by that logic you have no business interfering with an abusive parent because you happen to utter profanity at your friends when angry. Whatever minimizes long-term human suffering is the best thing we can do.
And as a rule, that’s nothing. America is not well meaning. America is neither moral nor benevolent. Greed and hatred are what it offers the world; America is a nation that despises benevolence. Any attempt to intervene will only make matter worse, because making matters worse is what we’ll be trying to do. You might as well to be appealing to the Mafia to go in and do something.
Whatever you may say you’re a leftist Calvinist who looks at America as utterly depraved as Jonathan Edwards considered human nature to be. You deny it has any possible good motivations in ridiculous absolute statements. Consider for instance the Balkans where the United States intervened to stop the massacres and ethnic cleansing (and yes I praise President Clinton for that and shame to those conservatives who opposed it).