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TOM TRULSON
March 25, 2011
http://www.theledger.com/article/20110325/EDIT02/103255009?Title=Homeland-Security-Should-Look-to-Mexico-More-Than-Middle-East
"More than 35,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon ordered a military offensive against the country's drug gangs shortly after taking office in December 2006." This statement in a recent news brief caused me to again wonder if we're focusing too much of our homeland-security efforts too far from home.
While I agree that al-Qaida and similar extremist groups pose a significant-and-real threat to American security that shouldn't be ignored, what is occurring daily in Mexico is perhaps much more of an immediate and long-term threat.