Is Mexico Becoming"One Of The World's Biggest Security Risks"?

The focus has been on the Middle East whenever you talk about national security.But, with all of the violence from Mexico spilling over into the United States,folks are starting to worry that things are beyond control over there.In fact,some are saying that Mexico may become a bigger headache than Iraq for President Obama.Here's more from MSNBC:

"Retiring CIA chief Michael Hayden told reporters on Friday that that Mexico could rank alongside Iran as a challenge for Obama — perhaps a greater problem than Iraq.

The U.S. Justice Department said last month that Mexican gangs are the "biggest organized crime threat to the United States." National security adviser Stephen Hadley said last week that the worsening violence threatens Mexico's very democracy.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff recently told The New York Times he ordered additional border security plans to be drawn up this summer as kidnappings and killings spilled into the U.S.

The alarm is spreading to the private sector as well. Mexico, Latin America's second biggest economy and the United States' third biggest oil supplier, is one of the top 10 global risks for 2009 identified by the Eurasia Group, a New York-based consulting firm.

Mexico is brushing aside the U.S. concerns, with Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez-Mont saying Wednesday: "It seems inappropriate to me that you would call Mexico a security risk. There are problems in Mexico that are being dealt with, that we can continue to deal with, and that's what we are doing."

Still, Obama faces a dramatic turnaround compared with the last time a new U.S. president moved into the White House. When George W. Bush was elected in 2000, the nation of 110 million had just chosen Vicente Fox as president in its fairest election ever, had ended 71 years of one-party rule and was looking forward to a stable, democratic future."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the whole article here:
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Did You See Malia Obama Taking Pictures Of Usher At The Inauguration Concert?

I know that Malia Obama loves the Jonas Brothers.When Usher performed at the Inauguration concert today,she was getting plenty of snapshots of him.I wonder if her parents noticed.

I really liked the way that they had a lot of diversity in the performances. I'm guessing that was by design.I really love the fact that we have a president with such a diverse racial background.For that reason,a multicultural America is an idea that he will embrace instead of reject.

EEEW! Did Dwayne Wade Really Give His Estranged Wife An STD?

Dwayne Wade may have just had his most personal business put out there for the world to know. Since he is going through an extremely nasty divorce,his wife has made some serious allegations about him. We all knew about the adultery. Now, she is saying that he gave her an "unspecified STD". Yuck! Here's more on that from sports.rightpundits.com:

"Siohvaughn is technically not trying to sue Dwayne. She wants the names of all his sexual partners during their six years of marriage, one of whom might have been responsible for the disease! Now, apart from the all the finances that he would have had to handle… Dwayne’s all off-the-court business is about to be revealed in public.

She also says she has suffered ”grievous physical, emotional and mental injury” from the STD, diagnosed in the fall of ‘07. Dwyane and his ”paramour or paramours” are liable, she alleges. ‘Dwyane must disclose the identity of all of his sexual partners during the parties’ marriage.”

Now that is not good, at least for a person who was chosen as the ‘Father of the Year” in 2007 by the National Father’s Day Committee. The All-Star has two boys from this marriage and has been linked to actress Gabrielle Union before."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here:http://sports.rightpundits.com/?p=1474