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 war and Bush's indefensible. 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.

There are the numbers of Vietnam, but it is alarming in every way.
Therefore it is chilling that with these 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 over seventy weeks of execution. 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 we must add 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 pass the army and slaughter.
The roadblocks discourage, 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 they seem to "just 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, versus not-know-who-but the reality and the natural sequences for this unbridled violence and denatured always end up transgressing the barriers of 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 numbers of conventional war, 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, which 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 do their jobs. The last link is the most sensitive: the armed forces.

Do we really want them involved in a war of sordid in which could be subject to the same bribery and complicity? 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 ability of the drug for disappearing among them to gain a significant advantage. Only if they are removed from we will be able to rebuild a country experiencing some of its bloodiest days.

Maybe it's time to think, seriously, in 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 think and discuss it seriously, human lives we require.

Luciano Pascoe
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