Are you a domestic terrorist?

[Occhidiangela]

So, if I follow correctly... because Mexico was and is stupid, they want and need their stupidest leaders, which can then be said to be good for them?

No entiendo, señor. Wouldn't it still be better to have good leaders? For instance, I don't recall Juarez being quite such a chump. Even Porfirio Diaz seems like a pretty swell guy, by comparison.

-Jester

Jester, you are being deliberately obtuse, I think. This vacuous statement "wouldn't it be getter to have good leaders" is rather pointless. "Wouldn't it be better to piss in the toilet than on your breakfast?" is as useful a question.

Just what is a "good leader?" Sometimes you need a tough guy, some times a nice guy. Depends on what the nation faces.

The current president of Mexico is "better" than his alternative, the guy he barely beat in the recent election, but is he actually a "good leader" in a terminally stupid national culture?

Put another way, which of the turds floating in the punch bowl do you consider good turds worth drinking?

Calderon is the dipstick who had his agencies providing maps of trails how to infiltrate my nation's border. If this were the Iranians providing maps for Kurds to infiltrate into Turkey, how would that sell? If this were Iran passing undesirable Afghani or Pakistani immigrants via transport into Iraq to bring their criminal enterprises with them, to include bomb making and drug running, how do you think that would sell?

That's what this jackanape has already done. I do not consider that as other than a hostile act. I do not consider that "good" in the least.

However, he's not all bad.

He's bitten the bullet and gotten serious about his nation's narco terrorists and drug lords, at significant personal risk.

Calderon may or may not succeed in getting out of the punchbowl, and dragging some other turds with him. It is my prediction -- for his sake, I am hopefully dead wrong -- that he will be assassinated by one of the drug cartels before his term of office ends. What is tragic is that if he does survive his term, he can't do as Helmut Kohl or Maggie Thatcher did, or any number of other leaders the world over, and sustain the momentum of successful policy. One of his provisional successes, though the game is still on, is his internal war on drugs and narco terrorists, which brings us back to the OP, domestic terrorists.

Mexico is lousy with them.

Why?

We've already been down that road.