"Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state," said National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair at his first news conference Thursday.
Echoing the assessment of Mexico's leaders, Blair said the dramatic increase in killings in Mexico is a result of that government's crackdown on drug cartels.
A U.S. military planning report issued in January warned that the escalating violence is dangerously destabilizing Mexico and warned its government could collapse. But Blair said there is no danger of that.
That planning report, the JOE, was not a prediction of collapse but just scenarios of some bad things that might possibly happen--so we should think about the what ifs.
I worried earlier in the year that something might be amiss with Mexico, but the headlines lately are too stark.
Work the problem, people.
