President Bush took a step against the drug cartels in Mexico, and President Obama is turning it into a dance.
Well, that might be a little too much, but we can hope good will come of what Obama is doing.
Back in 2008, Bush's Merida Initiative went into effect, with $1.6 billion allocated to provide training along with armoured cars, helicopters and such for Mexican law enforcement agencies in their war against the drug cartels.
Now, changes Obama is bringing to the Initiative might make it a little more artful, a little more of something we can dance to. Obama wants the project to shift away from buying armoured cars and airplanes and helicopters and instead reform Mexico's corrupt law enforcement agencies, and courts and government.
I don't know how he's going to go about it, but it sounds like the right move. If the officers are corrupt, why would we ever buy them equipment? You don't pay the guards at the hen house if the guards are wolves. You don't buy chariots for warriors unless you know the warriors are on your side.
I don't know Mexico's law enforcement system is riddled full of drug influence, but I googled up an article that led me to think it might be.
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