Mexico upset by Fast and Furious as revelation surfaces that Obama accepts killing as part of presidency
Mexico’s ambassador to the United States detailed last week how the administration of President Barack Obama left his government in the dark while arming violent drug cartel criminals through Operation Fast and Furious.
Last Thursday, Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan told a forum on Capitol Hill that the Obama administration’s handling of the operation demonstrated an “outstanding lack of understanding of how criminal organizations are operating on both sides of our common borders.”
The operation led to the killing of hundreds of Sarukhan’s fellow citizens and two American law enforcement agents: Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata. The identities of the countless Mexican victims are unknown.
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“Regardless of whether this was or was not the intent or the design of Fast and Furious, the thinking that you can let guns walk across the border and maintain operational control of those weapons is really an outstanding lack of understanding of how these criminal organizations are operating on both sides of our common borders,” Sarukhan said, adding that he thinks the Obama administration had significantly damaged its popularity in Mexico.
The revelation that Mexico was kept in the dark as the Obama administration pumped thousands of weapons into the hands of criminals in its country – criminals who then used the weapons to kill people – comes after news broke that President Barack Obama thinks it’s part of his job as president to kill people, as detailed in a soon-to-be-released book by Newsweek investigative reporter Daniel Klaidman.
The rest of the article is here, but it boggles the mind in so many ways, that it's hard to describe. So, two points:
First, Obama seems to be blase about killing people. While the possibility of taking a life should always be kept in mind, especially for the Commander-In-Chief, one should not treat that possibility lightly. Obama appears to do so.
Second, Mexico seems to have implied that the Obama administration is guilty of war crimes. I'm no lawyer, but complicity (at the least!) in mass murders across international boundaries appears to be a war crime. Certainly George Bush was accused of that, on far shakier evident. Yet, not one word of this speech has hit the main stream media.
At the least, "Fast and Furious" is certainly bringing out the worse in the Obama Administration, and the main stream media. At the worst, innocent people are dying, and we are losing our freedoms.
