Two drug-smuggling tunnels outfitted with lighting and ventilation systems were discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest signs that cartels are building sophisticated passages to escape heightened surveillance on land.
Both tunnels were at least 150 yards long. One began under a bathroom sink inside a warehouse in Tijuana but was unfinished and didn't cross the border into San Diego. The Mexican army found the tunnel Wednesday.
It's kind of impressive.
Then you remember the tunnels into Hamas that smuggle goods and weapons.
And you remember that insurgents and terrorists in Afghanistan and Colombia joined forces.
And you remember that Mexico doesn't exactly have a handle on their northern provinces overrun with drug gangs.
And you also remember that PRI is back in power in Mexico, whose determination to battle the drug gangs wasn't very high the last time they held power. Heck, they figured, the drug trade was our problem--not their problem. If gringos wanted to send dollars south into the Mexican economy, who were they to complain?
Then it became their problem big time. But the problem is perhaps too difficult for the PRI to fight with any enthusiasm.
Now it may be our problem again. If some of the drug gangs team up with jihadis to make use of tunnels like that for things worse than drugs.
