Pubdate: Thu, 31 May 2012
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2012 Los Angeles Times
Contact:  http://www.latimes.com/
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Author: Warren Evan Larson

ENDING THE DEADLY DRUG WAR

What is happening in Mexico is not only disastrous for Mexicans but 
for all of us in the United States and elsewhere. The puny effort to 
stop the flow of drugs north or guns and money south is a disaster. 
Violence has already spilled into some border towns and will 
undoubtedly continue moving north until we awaken to the catastrophe.

That there have been about 50,000 drug-war-related deaths still 
surprises our otherwise well-informed citizens. This is a much faster 
rate than the Vietnam War at its peak, and the pace is quickening for 
reasons well documented in The Times' fine series, "Mexico under siege."

Warren Evan Larson

Sunland
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