Rick Perry wants to invade, sorry, occupy, I mean, take over..just read the post!!

Presidential candidates always want to show that they are tough, strong, and are willing to go further than their opponents in issues.

Rick Perry wants to show that he has the guts to fix the Mexican drug problem:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Saturday that he would consider sending U.S. troops into Mexico to combat drug-related violence and stop it from spilling into the southern United States.

“It may require our military in Mexico,” Perry said in answer to a question about the growing threat of drug violence along the southern border. Perry offered no details, and a spokesman, Robert Black, said afterward that sending troops to Mexico would be merely one way of putting an end to the exploding cartel-related violence in the region.

Well, the American Government has sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, and we don't see an end of the violence there.

“If he were president he would do what it takes,” Black said. “The governor said, ‘I’m going to work with the Mexican government to do what’s necessary.’ ”

Of course Perry, "if you were president", which now I think many Mexicans, and Mexican Americans, hope that you will never become the president.

The issue also opens the door to scrutiny of Perry’s position on U.S. military intervention generally. The governor has criticized President Obama’s management of military operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere; on Saturday, at the same campaign appearance where Perry made his remarks about Mexico, he promised never to send troops into another country without a detailed plan for winning and withdrawing quickly.

Of course, you will lock your self as Obama did from what he inherited from Bush.

Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow and specialist on national security and defense policy with the Brookings Institution, said the idea of using troops to combat drug violence along the border is not unprecedented — National Guard troops currently patrol the border — and he gave Perry credit for trying to address the issue. But sending troops into Mexico, if that is what Perry is suggesting, would be entirely unacceptable to Mexicans, who partly blame U.S. gun and drug policies for their crisis, he said.

Of course, Perry's state, Texas, is the one state that sells the drug cartels the most arms. What hope have the Mexicans that as President, he will solve the problem???

Pure idiocy.