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Brenda Walker at VDARE.com asks: “Is Mexico About To Fall Apart?” (HAT TIP: Daily Pundit)

Mexico has been on the road to the status of “failed state” for a decade or more and the pace has recently quickened. As Daily Pundit notes, it’s happening not just in Mexico, but all over Central and South America.

There are narco-influenced paramilitary cartels all over Latin America carving out geopolitical fiefdoms while the strategic axis of Iran, China, and Venezuela work to spread Lebanon-style destabilizaton by proxy throughout Latin America.

This is happening on our borders. From Ms. Walker’s post:

Wars among the cartels are a growing source of violence, wreaking economic devastation on places like Nuevo Laredo, a border town that has lost 60 percent of its American business in the last two years. At least 40 businesses have closed in the town, where firefights between cartels may include rocket-propelled grenades and hundreds have been killed.

In August 2005, the State Department closed down the US Embassy in Nuevo Laredo for a week to reassess security after a shootout between drug gangs using machine guns, grenades and a rocket launcher. During the previous month, the city’s police chief was gunned down just hours after taking office.

Pierre Legrand ruminates on why the President failed to keep the American people in the war.

According to him, it’s because Bush, et al have failed to win the debate over Saddam Hussein’s links to al Qaeda, a key factor behind the public’s support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He’s certainly right about that. The meme now reads, “Saddam had no links to al Qaeda”.

It’s another example of the administration and it’s supporters failing to stand their position in a debate and simply point to the facts as they are known. As Mr. Legrand points out in his post, there is ample open source evidence of Saddam’s links to al Qaeda, including harboring one of the 1993 World Trade Center plot bomb makers - Abdul Rahman Yasin.