Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledges our "insatiable appetite" for illegal drugs and porous borders which allow weapons to move freely across them are responsible for rampant violence in Mexico.
Having long watched the myopic world of drug commentary get lost in a haze of self absorbed self righteousness, I found it gratifying to find that we have a President whose Secretary of State recognized what many of us have been staring at for years: that the great unfettered capitalism of the drug trade, which we bear a great deal of responsibility for, is not a problem that we are unattached to.
Although many doubt there will ever be a chance to end the prohibition on the drugs that foster this violence, seeing the present administration make such a bold statement gives me hope that we might be able to end the useless drug war we've been fighting since Richard Nixon was president. The use of drugs and there cousins in the realm of alcohol is not something that will disappear, and to come to grips with this view means we shall need to release our puritanical notions about their value. I believe children will do drugs (and alcohol) and that some are addicts. I do not believe that an open market to them is the end of western civilization.
It is in the words of the Secretary of State that gives me hope that as the administration slowly pushes its agenda into the mainstream, such ideas that were foreign barely 60 days ago are becoming acceptable to the citizens of this country.