How Many Americans Have to Die Before We Get Serious About Mexico?

Four people believed to be Americans were shot in the head and dumped in a notorious drug-smuggling area in northern Mexico near the border with California, Mexican police said on Monday.

Police in the beach town of Rosarito, across the border from San Diego, said they discovered the bodies of three men and a woman on Sunday in an abandoned car in a remote patch of scrubland near the Pacific coast.

Congress continues to push their amnesty plans forward, the Republican presidential nominee is making overtures to La Raza, and there is very little progress being made on the border fence. Meanwhile, Mexican law enforcement is fleeing across the border surrendering broad swaths of the country to the drug cartels and our citizens are now being outright murdered.

I am not saying these people were innocent, who knows, maybe they went down there intending to make some drug deals and ran afoul of one of the drug lords, but the point is it has crept northward and now poses a real physical threat to innocent citizens living close to the border.

Some 1,300 people have been killed in drug violence across Mexico this year and more than 2,500 died in 2007.

I wonder why we don't see headlines proclaiming the latest grim milestone in this war by the drug lords. Folks, that is only two years, the numbers for the military in the GWOT covers five years.