Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Pot and the Kettle

A top Mexican anti-drug official said the United States must do more to stop weapons from being smuggled into the hands of drug traffickers who are using them to kill Mexican soldiers and police.

Because we are the ones who have a problem sending things across the border illegally?

Assistant Secretary of Public Safety Patricio Patino made a fresh appeal Tuesday for U.S. authorities to cut off the supply.

"The firepower we are seeing here has to do with a lack of control on that side of the border," Patino said in an interview with The Associated Press. "What we have asked the American government ... is that they put clear controls on the shipments of weapons."

Wow. Just wow. Balls of titanium must be standard issue south of the border. How else do you explain that level of hypocrisy?

Since when does Mexico care about what comes across the border?