Drug War

These days, I've been hearing with higher frequency stories and news articles concerning Mexico and their battle against powerful drug cartels. The violence only seems to be escalating and, according to This Article, they are now even being referred to as a terrorist threat...having experienced a "transition from the gangsterism of traditional narco hit men to paramilitary terrorism with guerrilla tactics,"

"We have a criminal insurgency by organized crime that may well be a precursor to civil anarchy in part or all of Mexico,"

"There is in fact an insurgency on both sides of the American-Mexican border and it's stepped up a lot in the last several years because the Bush administration ignored it and put its focus on Iraq,"

"We have to do something now along the border, but just doing these little things that the administration announced today won't solve the problem in the long term,"

In fact, the Obama administration has unveiled a plan that could involve 700 million dollars that would allow the U.S. to work with Mexico to try and solve these problems.

This conflict, however, seems to be escalating in a way that some speculators have already begun to refer to it as "the next Iraq or Afghanistan"...

What do you think needs to be done? $700 Million seems to be a step to solving the problem, but clearly it isn't going to be the solution.