{"id":13422,"date":"2010-05-01T04:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T10:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13422"},"modified":"2010-05-01T04:28:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T10:28:36","slug":"%e2%80%98south-of-the-border%e2%80%99-reconsidered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13422","title":{"rendered":"\u2018South of the Border\u2019 Reconsidered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anthony Gregory and Eric Garris, Antiwar.com, 29 April 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justin Raimondo\u2019s latest column, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2010\/04\/27\/south-of-the-border\/\">South  of the Border<\/a>,&#8221; has stirred controversy with its apparent advocacy  of stricter U.S. border controls as a response to the drug-related  violence terrorizing the American Southwest. While Antiwar.com has  traditionally stuck to issues of foreign policy, immigration is a more  than tangentially related matter, and the severity of the recent gang  warfare and its prominence in the press prompted Raimondo to present his  analysis of the problem and his favored response.<\/p>\n<p>But there is another view, one more in line with Antiwar.com\u2019s  commitment to non-interventionism and opposition to militarism. While  Raimondo is correct about the intolerable barbarity and increasing  urgency of the border crisis, he appears to have ignored the root cause  of this calamity. This has led him to advance a political solution that  neglects the underlying, endemic problem of U.S. meddling in Latin  America.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the drug cartels\u2019 actions as &#8220;terrorism,&#8221; Raimondo fails  to mention that as truly horrific as this violence is, it is a logical,  inexorable consequence of U.S. government actions. Like 9\/11, the border  warfare is blowback \u2013 in this case, blowback from U.S. drug policy,  particularly Washington\u2019s relentless strong-arming of its southern  neighbor to serve as a satellite in America\u2019s War on Drugs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/anthony-gregory\/2010\/04\/28\/south-of-the-border-reconsidered-3\/\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Gregory and Eric Garris, Antiwar.com, 29 April 2010 Justin Raimondo\u2019s latest column, &#8220;South of the Border,&#8221; has stirred controversy with its apparent advocacy of stricter U.S. border controls as a response to the drug-related violence terrorizing the American Southwest. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13426,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422\/revisions\/13426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}