Amid the other aims of the current war, I pray that the "war on drugs" is not forgotten. That "war" - the quotation marks have hitherto always been needed really - ought to take aim at all the drug cartels, which have destroyed many more American lives than the recent attacks on New York and Washington. While we are invading or bombing one distant country or another, there is a closer enemy, one equally sinister, armed and violent.

I lived in Mexico for many years. It ought to be enough for us to support President Fox in this effort, but I would like that support to be active and full. Also, although there is always a need for secrecy in military and police operations, it would probably help if some part of that effort were publicized. I suspect that my fellow Americans do not realize - or easily forget - that Mexico, too, has been suffering grievously from terrorism.

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