Since operations began in Iraq in March 2003, Americans have suffered 3.361 casualties. This means that each year have died, on average, 840 Americans in the private and indefensible war Bush. This conflict motivated by money, oil, revenge and family need to revive the arms market has cost and will cost much more to the United States.

Figures are not Vietnam, but it is alarming in every way.
So it's chilling to those figures, ours, those of our war between organized crime and drug trafficking, do not react strongly against more than 800 deaths, between January and early May. We had weeks of more than seventy executed. 70! In the grisly attacks on 11 March in Madrid killed 191 people. These comparisons, with all its caveats serve to show how dramatic the situation in our country.

And now you can sum four soldiers ambushed. So, as such, as if it were a conventional war, the gunmen took up positions to assume that prior to wait-"whistle" of some infiltration to the passage of the army and massacre them.
Seals discouraged, but not resolved. Deportations assure us that these characters will no longer operate, but what about all those who continue to operate safely from Mexican criminal?

So far, the mirage that keeps this war out of our daily lives is that it seems that "only kill each other" as a friend told me socially accepted in their blindness. This may well be. It may be that for now only running between rival gangs, the Gulf against Tijuana, against not-know-who-but the reality and the natural sequences for this rampant violence and denatured always end up transgressing the barriers of than normal. Sooner or later this violence will come to my street, to you, to everyone.

And the people who live in places taken by the narco live in fear and with extreme caution. If this does not stop soon, which will be worse.

And it's not one to be alarmist, is that just look at the figures above, or any other you like to search the Internet. We are in conventional warfare figures, that's no small matter.

The authority's liability is enormous, but neither has all the tools to wage this battle. They have a corrupt justice system, with which it will be difficult to achieve results in the arrests, police forces have infiltrated municipal and state for the crime at all levels and also the federal police do not have enough troops-about 12 000 across the country - to perform their tasks. The last link is the most sensitive: the armed forces.

Do we really want to involve them in a war of sordid in which could be subject to the same bribery and collusion? By now we have another.

The government of Felipe Calderón will have to go back to a lost war starter. A war in which we depend on the drug's ability to disappear into them to gain a significant advantage. Only if they are removed from we will be able to rebuild a country that has some of the bloodiest days.

Maybe it's time to think, seriously, the legalization of some drugs. Break the cycle of violence starts in the illegality. Maybe if the market will regulate us and not them, things can change. It's time to seriously think about and discuss the life require us.

Luciano Pascoe
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