Remember the Border War?

Remember the Border War?

Blood in the Sand

Numbers … just numbers

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

             The argument for term limits has become personal.

            My words spread over time have been idealistic. The sentences are grandiose. ‘Sovereign Americans will ultimately make good decisions;’ ‘The moral authority will eventually be assumed by the voters;’ and, ‘Our Constitution will prevail’ were all crafted.

            Those words ring hollow. Too many things have happened.

            I don’t like this latest Arab oil sand intrigue. I am struck with the notion if you run for president and lose … or, if you have lived in the Whitehouse for eight years … or, if your trips home concern campaign fundraising … or, if your attention is unevenly divided on somebody else’s border rather than our own, your assistance in matters of state are no longer needed. In fact, they are no longer wanted.

            Go home and raise money for a self defined shrine. Extract it from friends and neighbors if you can, but just go home … your turn is over.

            Numbers … just numbers

            The number for cartel-related murders being bandied around is 80,000.

            Actually, that number is surprising. Too many of us remember when it lingered around 30,000. The press was reluctant to give it credibility. It was a resisted milestone.

            It was always surrounded with qualification. That became vivid when Mexican research revealed that Mexicans, when faced with threat of repercussion, will consistently report less than one in three incidents of cartel violence.

            To be specific, only 27% of the cartel related murders ever surface. Reporting will result in retaliation. Nothing has changed. That is why the number of deaths from the cartel war can be calculated to be 296,000.

"Rest assured the same shock factor could be generated in the border war. Scenes displaying farm workers lined up alongside trenches and shot would get some attention. Likewise, holding a writhing, nameless man down while somebody cut his head off would elevate instant horror. So would stuffing the body of a comatose woman into a drum of acid to be obliterated."

            No loss of life is condoned, but face reality. The folks who have reported the 100,000 gas exterminated victims in Syria have reason to seek a maximum shock response. The more outrage the more justification for the Washington leadership to crank up the smart bombs and squeeze electronic triggers.

            Before Mr. Putin stepped in, the debacle had reached the point of deferring to the American people to figure out why a single dime could be spent supporting Hezbollah on one side or al-Qaida on the other.

            The justification expanded into mob mongering when the Whitehouse released videos of dying victims. Shame on them! If they had to resort to color coordinated gang rallies rather than leadership integrity, they are what we have long determined … bush league politicos in a tender box world.

            Rest assured the same shock factor could be generated in the border war. Scenes displaying farm workers lined up alongside trenches and shot would get some attention. Likewise, holding a writhing, nameless man down while somebody cut his head off would elevate instant horror. So would stuffing the body of a comatose woman into a drum of acid to be obliterated.

The difference is the Syrian debacle is being framed for exposure on the basis of saving the reputation of a leader who does not have our interests at heart. On the other hand, the Mexican debacle is being diminished for the purposes shielding the reputation of a leader who does not have our interests at heart. In both cases, collateral dying is relegated to a menu selection process. It will be elevated or dismissed on the basis of political gain.

            The big number

            The war in Mexico has become a forgotten news event, but numbers from it impact us immensely.

The statistic of high concern is the number of illegals immigration reform will ultimately yield. The political gain crew is using 11 million, the estimated number of illegals living in the United States without legitimate status.

            That is not the actual number. The real number is at least 29.7 million. That basis was demonstrated after the 1986 Amnesty when the crew told us there were a million illegals within our borders. When the processing concluded, there were 2.7 million. More stood in the shadows.

            The pending coronation of 30 million new Democrats probably won’t change the pace of our wealth erosion. Torrents of money are already funneled to those people.  What does impact us are the conditions at the border that have allowed those folks to invade us. The same politicos contemplating defending Hezbollah or al-Qaida largely dismiss the implications of non-defense of our border.

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers has again challenged Congress to acknowledge the truth of the 29.7 million illegal aliens. They have done that in an open letter. They have also ramped up their campaign across the country to draw attention to it and the collateral border threat from al-Qaida and Hezbollah.

"The difference is the Syrian debacle is being framed for exposure on the basis of saving the reputation of a leader who does not have our interests at heart. On the other hand, the Mexican debacle is being diminished for the purposes shielding the reputation of a leader who does not have our interests at heart. In both cases, collateral dying is relegated to a menu selection process. It will be elevated or dismissed on the basis of political gain."

Since 2008, Iran has openly recruited volunteers for Jihad in the Western Hemisphere. Their recruitment website, “Islamoriente.com”, has sought Spanish speaking recruits for missions into the ‘soft underbelly’ of America. Even the State Department finally acknowledged in August the pressing need for expanded investigation.

Why are we engaged in debate over a Middle Eastern regime revolution whose combatants are committed to our annihilation?

 Color me red, white and blue, but I believe there is an incredible tactical opportunity at hand. The border rancher in me screams for the consideration of arming both sides in Syria to the teeth, contracting with Israel to seal the combat zone borders, and track this thing by satellite imagery for the next several years.

Let those fellows who detest us debate and work their anger out.

By that time, our government would be able to observe and measure real border protection designed and enforced by the Israelis for comprehensive national defense. We could then adopt those techniques and committed practices as ours, or … bypass Washington politics completely and hire the Israelis to defend our border!

           

Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “With 93 years of combined entitlement tenure, the three senior ‘gang of eight’ politicos (McCain, Schumer, and Durbin) promised you, in 1986, there would never be the need for another amnesty bill … Hmmm.”