The government can shell out billions more to shore up the border from drug smugglers and it will all be a waste("Cartels outrun, outgun the law at Ariz border," Republic, Wednesday).

As long as there continues to be a voracious appetite in the U. S. for drugs, the cartels, seeing huge profits, will let nothing stand in their way, not even the mighty U. S. government.

Don't bother calling the governor or your senator. There is nothing they can do until American young people curtail their drug habits or the United States legalizes drugs and stamps out the profit in the illicit trade.

Or out of desperation, we could always resort to the Mayaysian method: simplly kill everyone involved in drugs--users and dealers.

Debra J. White

Tempe

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