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America's Third War: Tracking Cocaine, One Kilo at a Time
By William La Jeunesse
Published December 09, 2010 FoxNews.com Print Email Share Comments (6) Text Size It’s Mexico’s war, but Americans pay for it. Blame the violence, chaos, murder rate, corruption, instability and innocent lives taken – not on Mexico – but on America's drug habit, says Jim Gray, a former California Superior Court Judge and Los Angeles County prosecutor.
“That’s our drug money that’s doing it and we should be ashamed of ourselves because we’re the ones that arrogantly look at Mexico and tell them, ‘you should do more to resolve your drug problem,’ and that’s stupid,” said Gray.
Most of the heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and cocaine consumed in the U.S. originates in, or transits through Mexico.
“Anyone that is buying narcotics is financing that effort,” said Chief Paul Beeson, head of San Diego sector of the U.S. Border Patrol.
The U.S.-Mexican border is but one hurdle for the cartels, one step in a long, but profitable journey that fuels the violence in Mexico."