Shouldering the Blame

Tony Garza has had an up-and-down tenure as American ambassador to Mexico, with more up lately than down. As his exit from Mexico City approaches, these last couple of weeks have offered a fitting distillation of his service, with an unnecessary misstep --declaring the Mouriño plane crash an accident before anyone from Mexico did so-- followed by an unusually frank admission of American drug users' role in Mexico's insecurity.