DEA gives Mexico drug war slaughter thumbs up

There are some useful insights to be gleaned from a CNN opinion piece entitled Is Mexico's drug war strategy working?

You know the war. The one that's been waged with US money since Calderon's election. The war on drugs that has taken 50,000 Mexican lives since 2006. The war that's keeping cocaine and marijuana out of America.

Any problem finding cocaine or marijuana in your corner of America?

Didn't think so.

But here's Rod Benson, Intelligence Director of the DEA, on a drug war that has taken 50,000 Mexican lives and made no impact whatsoever in the availability of drugs in the US; "it is moving in the right direction, and I believe it will bear dividends in the future."

Oh great!

Fifty thousand dead Mexicans might disagree...

...but what the fuck; they're dead anyway!