Garza on Mexico

Earlier this week, Tony Garza penned an editorial in the Dallas Morning News calling for furthering the security ties between the US and Mexico, and forcefully rejecting the failed state theories. Good for him! However, this line jumped out at me:

More than 5,500 innocent lives were lost last year in cartel-related violence, and our U.S. border states have seen the war spill into our communities.

Innocent? Maybe in the biblical sense of the word, but not in any practical sense. Just last week, the Mexican attorney general said that 90 percent of those killed last year were members of drug gangs. The rest were either bystanders (4 percent) or law enforcement (6 percent).