Editorial #4

Homeland security is doing its very best to keep Mexico's viscious drug war from leaking over the U.S/Mexican boarder by sending 100s of agents to patrol the boarder and by bolstering screening technology at border crossings to root out drugs, drug money, guns and violent fugitives. The administration is, helpfully, stressing the importance of sharing information and resources with Mexico. It is also acknowledging the role of the United States in Mexico’s agonies. Americans, after all, are the addicts whose desperate consumption fuels the drug trade, and the gun merchants whose illegal profiteering has turned feuding cartels into bristling armies. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was right to have explicitly conceded that point this week. It is good news that our government will soon be stepping up screening for guns in trucks and train cars heading south.