Not the right way to treat your banker.

[pwcmba]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5898650.ece

What will the US need to offer to keep the peace and them buying the debt?

[D-Mack]

Obama and US commander discuss military intervention in Mexico
By Bill Van Auken
10 March 2009


Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen briefed President Barack Obama over the weekend on the so-called drug war in Mexico and the prospect of increased US military involvement in the conflict south of the border.

Mullen had just returned from a six-day tour of Latin America, which took him on his last and most important stop to Mexico City. There he held meetings with Mexico's secretary of national defense and other top military officials and discussed proposals for rushing increased US aid to Mexico under the auspices of Plan Merida, a three-year, $1.4 billion package designed to provide equipment, training and other assistance to the Mexican armed forces.

In a telephone press conference conducted as he returned from Mexico, Mullen said that the Pentagon was prepared to help the Mexican military employ the same tactics that US forces have applied in counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/mexi-m10.shtml


All I know is that they will need a lot more troops for their visions....

[GRG55]

All I know is that they will need a lot more troops for their visions....

No problem. The government is trying to create, what, 4 million jobs? Military jobs are one of the few sectors where the US Federal government has historically done pretty well at creating employment when circumstances require...;)