Now that's some kind of leadership...

I read in the May issue of Newsmax that Vicente Fox, president of Mexico, is critical of the Obama administration for failing to assist them in their "war" with drug cartels.

From the article:
"Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got," Fox says. "He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend to different issues at the same time."

Thats a strange kind of criticism, considering the source.

Mr. Fox can't seem to solve anything in his own country where drug cartels and members of the army and police force are entangled in a war for power that is tearing Mexico apart.

But it's really not his fault. Mr. Fox has called on the United States to legalize and decriminalize drugs, which he believes would throttle the demand for narcotics -- the root cause of Mexico's civil unrest. "I think the best move is to take away business from criminals and put it in the hands of businessmen and producers, farmers, distributors," he says.

Right -- if you take the criminal part out of criminal activity -- let's make it, say, commercial activity instead -- then all the bad stuff associated with it goes away...You don't have crime any more! Okay, you have the same activities going on, but they are no longer bad. Problem solved!!

Can't you just picture the army and policia getting together with the drug cartels and sharing power,  no longer clashing over who has control...because nobody wants drugs any more, or maybe everybody wants drugs but, hey, it's no big deal...none of them are making money on it...Yes, all they've ever wanted was to share and share alike...

The path to peace: rename war.

Great idea, Mr. Presidente.