At least that's what Hillary Clinton says:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that an "insatiable" appetite in the United States for illegal drugs was to blame for much of the violence plaguing Mexico.
"We are. How could anybody conclude any differently?" Clinton told reporters in response to a question during a flight to Mexico for a two-day visit likely to be dominated by a drug war that killed 6,300 people in Mexico last year.
Gotta find some way to blame Americans. But this is impossibly strained.
It's like saying that your desire to own your own home caused other people in the mortgage industry to engage in fraud while competing for your business. Where's the connection? There is none.
What's interesting about Clinton's statement is that, in assigning blame to unknown, faceless people's "appetites," she is saying that there's nothing we can do except blame America. How do you go about changing the appetites of illegal drug users? Does Clinton want to find a solution?
Guns don't kill people. Insatiable appetites don't kill people. People kill people.
Go after the people that kill. Then you might accomplish something other than encouraging more hatred of your own country. If improving the situation is not your goal, the taxpayers would like to know why they are paying your salary.
Cross-posted at Truth v. The Machine
