I just sent this missive off to some Newspaper Editors, maybe they'll put it in, or not.

Brutal acts of terrorism are occurring every day on our door step. Torture, kidnappings, executions, beheadings, and mass killings fill the headlines coming out of Juarez. A family from Las Cruces is chased down, and executed on the side of a highway. Gunmen storm into a rehabilitation clinic, line patients up against the wall, and murder seventeen of them. Violence like this would be considered extreme anywhere on earth, but this is happening right here, to our neighbors, and to our own families, who have relatives on both sides of the border. To end it, we must know what causes it. Organized violence doesn’t arise in a vacuum. It’s a side effect of certain situations. Our nation’s insatiable appetite for drugs ensures that a market will exist for them. Our prohibition of these drugs will in turn ensure that that market is regulated by thugs, criminals, and gangsters. When gangsters have a business dispute with thugs, their ways of dealing with it don’t usually involve business courts, or lawyers, at least not until the police are involved. It’s interesting to look at another drug that we import from Mexico, Tequila. Tequila’s main constituent is ethanol, a drug which kills about 15,000 people a year through vehicle accidents, as well as being involved in tens of thousands more through its health effects, its ability to precipitate accidents, and its propensity to induce violence. Yet there aren’t any drug wars being fought over such a lethal substance. Why not?