No Soy Un Soldado

There is an old Chinese saying: "Do not point out the splinter in your brother's eye when you have a log in yours." It's a pretty fucking bizarre saying. First thing, what sort of woodshop are you running when you've got wood floating around in each other's eye? Second, if you got a log in your eye, you wouldn't be saying "Hey bro, you got a splinter in your eye" but "HOLY SHIT I'VE GOT A FUCKING LOG IN MY EYE CALL FUCKING 911!!!!"

But the point is simple: don't be messing around in other people's business when there's stuff going on nearby which is going to seriously mess your life up, such as a log in your eye. That'll mess your life up worse than drugs.

I read this article on MSNBC about this dude they call the "Stewmaker." Sounds interesting. Interesting morphs into curious/morbid when I drop the fact that he works with the Mexican drug cartels into the mix. Apparently, his job was to dissolve the victims of whatever drug related violence the cartels ran into acid to dissolve the bodies.

The Mexican drug war has been sailing under the radar while the United States has been basically earning the ire of anyone who adheres to the Muslim faith. Mexico has always been fairly nutty (if you've seen Man on Fire with Denzel Washington, you know what I'm referring to). Now we've got Mexican drug cartels who have their fingers so far up the rear end of the government that their fingernails are tickling the tonsils running a little too close to the border of the United States. Incursions have occurred as well, an issue that should be addressed.

Now the United States did try catching the last guy who seriously tried dicking around with the United States (it was during a war as well) and it wasn't the most effective thing in the world, but at least the United States did something drastic. It's understandable that the United States has limited capabilities right now, but it's less understandable to let the Mexicans pose a threat so close to the national borders.