U.S. Double Standards: ISIS and Murders in Mexico

The Mexico conflict is the U.S.’s most unjustifiable strategic blind spot.

By Bill Humphrey, November 16, 2014  |  http://www.theglobalist.com/mexican-cartels-and-isis-a-tale-of-two-threats/

Takeaways

• Militants are destabilizing a major oil producing country next to a NATO member without repercussion -- in Mexico.
• Unlike ISIS, the US hasn’t bombed Mexican cartels despite their attacks on Americans and territorial control.
• Every argument for the aggressive response toward ISIS could be made toward the conflict in Mexico.
• Mexican cartels have killed more US citizens inside the US itself than were killed by al-Qaeda on 9/11.
• Mexican cartels have even attacked US consulates. Where are the Benghazi-style “investigations”?

There are heavily armed militants with substantial military experience terrorizing, extorting and beheading people in a major oil-producing desert country to the south of a NATO member, destabilizing a wide region encompassing many countries.
They are the Mexican cartels and the United States hasn’t bombed them at all (unlike ISIS), even as they have captured and held territory for years on end.