Is The U.S. Fudging Its Commitment To Mexico And Its Drug War?

U.S. Lagging In Sending Anti-Drug Aid To Mexico, GAO Says -- Washington Post

MEXICO CITY -- The United States has spent a fraction of the money pledged -- just $24 million of $1.3 billion appropriated -- to help Mexico in its bloody three-year-old battle against the drug cartels that have turned parts of country into a war zone and left 15,000 dead, according to a U.S. government report issued Thursday.

The Merida Initiative, signed by President George W. Bush and Mexican leader Felipe Calderón in 2007, promises Black Hawk helicopters, night-vision goggles and drug-sniffing dogs, as well as a more robust crime-fighting partnership between the United States and Mexico. So far the United States has delivered 2 percent of the equipment and support promised, according to the report by the Government Accountability Office.

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My Comment: We are spending tens of billions of dollars in Afghanistan .... a country on the other side of the planet .... and on our border with Mexico we are spending millions .... reluctantly.

I guess for the powers that be in Washington this makes perfect sense.