Yay! Someone finally acknowledges the obvious!
Too bad their prescriptions are not only obtuse, but stupid. The US should "forge closer ties" with Mexico by "helping Mexico developing viable alternatives for its citizens. People need hope. The government needs to be seen as serving the collective interest, including security. Political institutions need reform. Public institutions need to provide health and education. The economy needs security and jobs. If this sounds familiar, it is. Good governance is a universal right and responsibility"?
Other than money, which is what this paragraph spells, what else in the form of us meddling there can one former-sovereign nation do in another without the use of force?
And these: "Iowa has been a center for cartel-controlled methamphetamine" and "The U.S. Justice Department has indicated that the cartels have a presence in at least 230 American cities."
Where they're hiding among, and using, their illegal brethren. So, nothing about closing the border (and we know they know how to shut things) or deporting illegals.
And this: "Mexican leaders remain angry that President George W. Bush retreated from his pledge to continue the ban on assault weapons. The cartels exploited the lapse to purchase AK-47s and heavy arms and adapt them into even more deadly weapons."
"Assault weapons", unh hunh; they're referring to the semi-autos for sale here, like the cartel doesn't get bulk arms shipments of real assault weapons from further on south of Mexico, and tsk tsk on Bush for not infringing on OUR Second Amendment rights because Mexico is out of control.
And finally: "The United States is unlikely to abandon the emphasis its places on Second Amendment rights, but it could do a lot more to crack down on already illegal sales of weapons that are smuggled across the Rio Grande into Mexico."
Got three words: Fast and Furious.