The Obamanation of US Foreign Policy

In the last few weeks President Obama has embarked on a series of foreign state visits which included the country of Mexico. There seems to be some concensus among both the Mexican government (who cannot seem to understand the concept of personal responsibility for its own internal security) and the Obama administration (a.k.a Attorney General Erick Holder, Homeland Security Chief Janet Nepolitano, et. al.) that the transfer of guns from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels and America's demand for drugs is causing all of the problems on our border to the South.

Now, if we look at this from a 'Drug Problem' perspective it may be worth noting that we had similar issues during the 1920s with Prohibition. An interesting note on this was recently published by Sharon Harris of the Advocates.org website (a well known Libertarian organization) where she states:

http://www.theadvocates.org/library/casualties-of-war.html

Now as for the gun running issue, I find it amazing that the U.S. government is attempting to complain about the shipments of AK-47s south of our border, when there is no firm in the U.S. which even produces these weapons in mass. Additionally, these same cartels can easily get these weapons for much cheaper from South American arms dealers than going through the terrible bureaucracy that a federal gun purchase check would entail at say your local neighborhood monthly gun show at the city auditorium. Sometimes those ATF federal gun purchase checks can take days on end to complete with all of the backlog. Not very efficient on the part of Mexican cartels to use that channel for acquiring guns. Sharon Harris also has some interesting perspectives on the gun issue which is worth reading:

http://www.theadvocates.org/library/guns.html

I was deeply disappointed in President Obama not standing his ground on his promises to prevent wasteful spending when he failed to veto the latest spending bills coming out of the Democratic Congress. Now with all of the bailouts (a.k.a. politcal pay-backs) budgeted and additional pork-barrel spending added in, we can all rest easy I suppose? Forbes has some reassurance for those who think otherwise:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1110/042.html


Maybe we do not really have 'change we can believe in' but those same ole Democrats we had back in the Jimmy Carter days?!