In USA Today, Caroll Culler writes (article here) about her life living in a border town next to Piedras Negras, Mexico. She 'explains' the effect the drug wars has had on her hometown and her favorite restaurant. Being from a border town myself, I cand understand the loss of leisure to walk right across the border and go shopping, of have lunch. But, I do feel that she talked more about how it has effected her personally, and I understand that she's trying to speak as the everyday citizen she claims to be, but in my opinion, she focused too much on her self & her home town. "A few months ago, El Restaurante Moderno in Piedras, known locally as 'Modernos,' closed its doors," Culler writes, "another victim of Mexico's raging drug wars. Its quirky elegance and four-star menu had served four generations of luminaries and film stars." I think that the drug wars are something that effects this country in general, and if shes worried about just her hometown, she isn't taking the time to really look at the big picture. She complains that the white house isn't doing enough and didn't jump on this issue quick enough, but she isn't trying to convince any of her audience how its effecting the people in say, Kentucky, instead of just on the border towns. She talks about how some of the local politicians gathered for lunch in a mexican restaurant and an innocent lady got shot on the way to her car, "In December, local officials...were toasting one another in a restaurant in Piedras when it was sprayed with bullets. One of the diners, a woman who had gone out to her car for something trivial, was killed." Remind me what they were doing in the next country? I agree that the white house hasn't done a reasonable amount to "fix" the drug wars that bleed in to our country, but THERE IS STILL A WAR GOING ON HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD. I'm sorry, Caroll Culler, there is no magic wand that Obama can wave around to get your favorite restaurant back.
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