Illegal drugs enter the U.S. on a daily basis. We could send men to fight the powerful drug cartels but with corruption filling the country of Mexico sending human lives in is getting very dangerous.
Thanks to technology we do not have to send in men to gather information. The Pentagon recently started unmanned, unarmed drones to gather surveillance on larger drug traffickers.
The new approach to fight drugs is a Joint effort between Presidents Obama and Calderon. Since both Mexico and the United States share the same threat.
A few years ago this technology was not so readily available and instead of sending in a remote controlled drone you would have to send in scores of men and worry about casualties and threats of corruption. Not so now.
There is some quarreling between the two nations. Some American leaders feels as though Mexico can not be trusted due to the high rate of corruption and many Mexican officials feel that the United States is only interested because the drug war claimed the life of an American, Jaime Zapata, earlier this year.
Here’s the story: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E5DE113EF935A25750C0A9679D8B63&scp=2&sq=mexico&st=nyt
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