I don't know if you've noticed or not, but the American government does what's best for them.Nothing is ever as it seems.

Whats his agenda? IDK ask john mccain, since obama switched half his views to what mccain said he would do if he got elected.

Why would he change it? The U.S. gov't is making more money than ever from the "illegal" drug trade. You don't cut off a key source of money during a recession.

There is no "president" Obama.

McCain lost because he was all Clark Kent and Neville Chamberlain wisecracks... what does that tell you?

Wow, that's a hell of a "question"... just because Newt Gingerich says it's important doesn't mean that it really is. There are bigger fish to fry--economy, middle east, energy.Unless something catastrophic happens during his tenure, I'm guessing the current policy of ignoring the problem entirely and deepening the plight of the people of the countries in question by encouraging "free trade" agreements that destroy their market for locally-produced (non-narcotic) goods.

The war on drugs is a bigger waste of time and money than the war in iraq

Given MS-15 has, at this point become an early stage II insurgency and more or less actively started to seize control of parts of Mexico, we are probably more concerned about the effect on cross border violence. The fact that this particular group uses drugs as their primary source of revenue is the reason we say we're fighting narco-terrorism, but that is not the central issue. An on-going civil war across from a fairly open border is not in our best inetrests. Thus, why we are concerned about Mexico. You heard it here first, within two decades US armed forces will be used to stablize the border regions.

LOL if you want security be it with mexico Canada or any where & especially against terrorism you backed the wrong guy. He want to cut security especially military but even on our borders. Also he doesn't think drug users nor dealers should go to jail & while I agree that jail doesn't cure addicts fact is that most if not close to all addicts commit other crimes to pay for their addictions. Anything from stealing breakins & theft to assualt rape robbering & car jackings any of those things can of course lead to accidental & intentional death of victims yet according to osama they don't deserve jail just because their addicts. We have fueled both sides of the war spending as much foreignly & internally as we do on buying drugs. Last year we spent something like 20 billion dollars fighting & helping fight drug cartels in central & south america while we spend something like 16- 21 on buying the drugs. You can't do anything half assed which is what we have done in the war on drugs for years & why Iraq & even Afganistan havent been the straigtforward conflicts we all had thought & hoped for. You need to jump in it completely & full heartedly after we've won we can worry about winning back any friends lost just look at Japan or Germany we fought both nuked one & their two of our biggest trading & allies in the world 60 some years later. Same goes for oil as long as people use it all the time every day people will have to pay & as long as other countries control it we have little choice as to what we pay because demand is always there the supply is not. People elected someone afraid to be american leader of america..1468 days left.........

"Cocaine" is harvested in Andino-America(Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador), and most of it, is trafficked " via Cuba-Florida."-*-*-*-*-Obama and Calderon Know that, they are going to be addressing that problem.Merida Initiative is BS: Last June 30, President George W. Bush signed into law the "Merida Initiative", better known as Plan Merida or Plan Mexico, just days after it passed Congress as part of the Iraq supplemental funding bill. The measure had to go through several versions before finally being approved by both houses, as legislators went back and forth with the Bush administration and Mexico President Felipe Calderón's government over human rights conditions. The final aid package of $400 million differs little in content and conception from the original version presented by President Bush on Oct.The initiative contains fatal flaws in its strategy. Its military approach to counter-narcotics work will escalate drug-related violence and human rights abuses and result in an inability to achieve its own goals.Although presented as an unprecedented effort to fight burgeoning drug trafficking and violence related to organized crime in Mexico, the "Regional Security Cooperation Initiative" will be a failure and a waste of money, and instead stopping the flow of illegal drugs, it will boost it, So communist Cuba can continue trafficking cocaine into Florida while spreading violence in the Mexican/USA border.