First of all, I was making an obviously GENERAL statement about Al Jazeera's credibility problems, not speaking of this one story, so I dont know what you are talking about when you say that I "ignored part of the story".
Why would we train "an army" for a country that runs on bribes and drug money?
I'm not sure how old you are, but this Mexican border violence is something that has become a problem, only in the last ten years. Prior to them, the cartels in Mexico got along with eachother, and their police, and were all organized quite well.
Anything's possible. Follow the money. Kinda ironic how the US is involved with drugs around the world, time and time again since the war on drugs was started, yet supplies go up, prices go down... Because we're winning 8)
Ten years ago and before, MOST of the H and coke and meth were coming into america via different routes OTHER than Mexico. The only drug primarily coming into the US via the mexican drug cartels was Mary Jane, so they didnt make nearly the money they do now. There were less cartels and less violence as a direct result. Since Bush tripled the border security spending by 300% about 4 years ago, and doubled the security personel, and increased technology enormously, the cartels are having a harder time getting drugs into the country, so the entry points they use are shrunk down, so they are fighting for control of the increased profits and the decreased turf........ Simple
Whether Bush did all that on purpose to make more drug money.......Well?
We train an army(some soldiers) for Mexico to try and help them, hoping their will be
some improvement with the problems. We cant just blow them off as a neighbor needing our assistance........ The same problem is rearing its ugly head in other countries like Haiti, where money is disappearing faster than Houdini, same in African nations where we and others send money to help them, but it is stolen by corrupt officials. We need to make sure the money is spent wisely, but thats difficult. Same with the money we send to the Palestinians, and to Iraq and Afghanistan. To Egypt as well! It mostly seems to disappear after we send it! But that also happens in corrupt, 3rd world cities in the US like Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans. Especially New Orleans, where about a decade ago we sent billions of fed dollars to fix the levy on lake Ponchartrain(spelling), but it was "
redirected" by the corrupt Dems running the place, which resulted in the Katrina disaster, after they DIDNT use the money to fix the levies! So the fools living there keep electing the same dems over and over, for over 60 years straight now, including the same mayor who failed them during Katrina. Sounds like when D.C. reelected the crack smoking mayor(another Dem), Marion Berry........