War is what you receive when you refuse to open them.
War can only be made by those with open eyes, so that they may see the enemy and strike them. It is no accident that every war of the modern age has begun at a time when the population supported it. This provides some of the enduring paradoxes of history (that Japan, already heartily sick of its war in China, could react so enthusiastically to the decision to go to war with the United States in 1941), but it remains true nonetheless.
Rather than simply accepting that war, as many people are prone to doing, let's examine the causes for it; obviously the US's drug policies are a major contributing factor to the power of the drug cartels.
Stop right there. This comment alone demonstrates that you do not have sufficient grounding in the origins and the history of Mexico's current conflict to commentate authoritatively on it. The current conflict in Mexico has many of the players in the War on Drugs, but it is not born of it.
It began a good ten years ago, not under the aegis of the US War on Drugs, which Mexico vocally will have no part of, but with a promise: we will clean up the corruption of the government. A worthy goal, yes? It was even, possibly, an achievable one. The United States was eager to help, but Mexico remembers its wars with the US sharply and will take little help or support from those who are still remembered as Imperialist Yankees.
It has progressed in scale and violence today to the point where government control of some areas in Mexico is largely theoretical. We are up to the level of open rebellion. You cannot manage that on the power of the almighty dollar alone.
The argument that if we legalized everything things would change is bankrupt. It would simply lend legitimacy to and reduce costs of the existing illegal system of distribution, and Mexico would still be having open rebellion. California's experiment with marijuana legalization has more or less proved the point that we don't have a system in place that can actually handle the legalization of drugs in a meaningful method; we treat them like pharmaceuticals but the illegal market remains, and we don't end up actually treating them like pharmaceuticals anyways.
If the War on Drugs ended today, Mexico's war to drag itself out of the Third World (and make no mistake, that is exactly what is going on) would still be going ten years from now and more, and it would only worsen. The roots of Mexico's conflicts lie in economics. Without the cartels it's possible the war would have been delayed. It's also much more likely that it would have been lost like Iran's has been.
You would have be stay silent and "accept the reality" of these wars? It seems as if you shut your eyes and say "these wars are what happen. They cannot be stopped. This is reality. This is the way things are. Anyone who believes differently is a fool that must be silenced and ridiculed".
You give yourself a great deal of credit for being able to read my mind in this. It is credit you do not deserve. Indeed the more credit you give yourself for claiming to understand my mindset, the more I am driven to hold you in utter contempt.
So let me speak plainly, sir. War is indeed reality; the reality that we live in an imperfect world, surrounded by imperfect people imperfectly interpreting imperfect systems of beliefs. Your naivety on this subject does you no favors.
This does not mean they cannot be stopped. It also does not mean they should be stopped.War is a cruel instrument. It destroys lives, families, governments, order, and even faith. But there are things that need destroying and times when lesser instruments are ineffective in the face of another's will to impose their desires via violence. As long as some will reach for a weapon to settle disputes, even those who would be accorded righteous will have need of war.
