U.S. plans for Mexico border violence

[katty]

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29659021/

U.S. plans for Mexico border violence
Official: Military force last resort in dealing with drug wars


updated 2 hours, 44 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - A top Homeland Security official told a House panel Thursday that Mexican drug cartels are the biggest organized crime threat to the United States.

Homeland Security official Roger Rufe said a department plan to respond to escalating violence on the southwest border includes — as a last resort — deploying military personnel and equipment to the region if homeland security agencies become overwhelmed.

Rufe, echoing comments a day earlier from President Barack Obama, said now is not the time to militarize the southwest border.

[Chulanowa]

1. Is there ANYTHING that's not a "biggest threat" to us?

And yeah, good idea, crack out the military to fight something the military's employers caused, and could easily end without shedding any American blood

[Posteritatis]

2. To be fair, they specify "biggest organized crime threat," which I have trouble arguing against (nt)

[Yavapai]

3. I thought that the biggest organized crime threat was the Bush crime family???

[Chulanowa]

4. And they've said that about every organized crime story, ever

I think "biggest organized crime threat" is defined as "most recent organized crime group to make the news"