That's an insight he shared with the GPS audience this morning.
When you're as well-connected and high profile a journalist as Fareed you're obviously privy to inside intel that's not available to the rest of us.
So we'll have to take Fareed's word for it that in spite of the 50,000 dead Mexicans and continuing saturation of the American market with illegal drugs, Calderon's US-dictated war on the cartels has turned some sort of imaginary corner.
Fareed's info is obviously so top-secret and up-to-the-minute that even the heads of state gathered at the recent Cartagena conflab hadn't heard of it. With the exception of Obama and his trusty parrot Steven Harper, every leader in the Western Hemisphere, Calderon included, has had their fill of the "war on drugs."
One of the few bits of supposed evidence that Zakaria cited was that no less than forty high level cartel operatives have been killed since Calderon launched this war in 2006.
Leaving aside the question of whether eliminating forty senior narcos justifies 50,000 dead, what does he suppose happens when a senior leader is taken out?
He is immediately replaced by younger and more aggressive leaders. Based on what I hear from folks who buy the stuff, the continued ample supply of illegal drugs would seem to bear that out.
So is Fareed's declaration of almost-victory based in reality, or is it based on White House talking points?
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