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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2269

So American troops are surging in Iraq and withdrawing along our own border. What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing, say the journalistic and political elites.

Yet, before anything else, what we need is a surge of troops on the U.S.-Mexican border, which is a lot closer to home than Baghdad. On Jan. 6 The Arizona Republic reported that a small team of National Guard troops “abandoned their post near the border southwest of Tucson as four gunmen approached from Mexico.” American authorities assured the newspaper that this was all fine, all part of the plan. It seems the National Guard, which President Bush sent to the border with great fanfare last year, is on guard only to perform administrative and logistical functions – it’s not supposed to do any actual border enforcement.

In the supposed-to-be-soothing words of Border Patrol spokesman Mario Martinez, “There was no attack” against the Americans in uniform. Why not? “In order to not be detected, they moved to a safer location,” Martinez cooed. “That’s exactly what we want them to do.” That’s one way to avoid confrontation: Just keep retreating. Works for a while.

Amazingly, this border incident, or lack thereof, has received almost no attention from the mainstream media. The New York Times, for example, has not mentioned it. The Washington Post ran a 42-word item on the Tucson non-incident, but the Powertown paper doesn’t really care about border security, either.

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http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=152653&section=Opinion&forumcomm_check_return&freebie_check&CFID=10307053&CFTOKEN=62956174&jsessionid=8830f75c563167604c5e