You're ah potty pooper![whip]

We could always send in Mr. Heisenberg too.

He always mops up and doesn't take any crap from those south of the border types.

Well......they were expendable!

I worry and am saddened by the loss of human life.

But the upside is since he is a federal employee at least his services will not be missed. He should be alive, just unemployed (working for the government = being on the welfare which at least is not as bad as catching the gay)

true... true.... 😟

By the way, is cigarsmokers avatar a recent picture of Charlie?

🤔 maybe....

I actually do find it very sad and do give a sheeet...

Am sure these two were targeted specifically for who they were and what they do...the other American casualties during this turf-war seemed to fall into two categories: 1. Wrong place and wrong time... 2. Part of the drug war...

This isnt something that can be solved nicely and in a timely manner...its the whole country...and you take one out, and there are 10 waiting to take their spot...there is entirely too much money at stake and no real "fear of punishment" as the laws in Mexico almost assure they are set free (except for real high profile cartel leaders who are extradited (if and when they are caught))...

Again, bad situation with no real valid solutions up to now...

Dont see it spilling across the borders (at least not at a high rate...more isolated incidences then a spill-over)...

Perhaps it is time to end prohibition.

Legalize drugs---eliminate the black market.

Legalizing drugs is a surrender monkey solution.

The drug gang members aren't just going to quit and go back to college and get computer science degrees!

Exactly...

maybe we can put them on the welfare... 😟

Thing no one seems to remember is that this goes on every so many years in mexico...yeah, you have times of calm (when there is a clear drug leader...

80's...think of the times of Rafael Caro Quintero (calm for many years till the death of Enrique Camarena)..

90's think when Amado Carrillo "El Señor de Los Cielos" (calm up to his death and then violent drug war)...

00's...think Chapo Guzman...all calm then they go kill his son and all hell breaks loose...

Again, as soon as a clear leader emerges, things will go back to normal...

Some interesting reading material:

1. Down by the River : Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden
2. Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge--An American Parable by Gary Cartwright

Again, these books deal with the Juarez drug wars and they are talking about stories from 10 - 20 years ago...

Really it is just a problem of too many cooks in the kitchen right now.

I can't wait for the new season of Breaking Bad