During World War II, a popular comic book ran a story about an entire Japanese infantry division that had somehow managed to sneak into New York City's Central Park and were getting ready to storm out of their well-dug-in concealed positions and take the town.
I remember it curdled my bone marrow. You've read about people paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a comic book from the 1940s in good condition. I begin to understand. I'd give a hundred to charity just to read that story again!
Because the concept of hostile foreign troops on American soil entered my mind when I was younger and stronger, maybe I can control my rage and not throw the piano through the plate-glass window at some late-breaking news. But it's hard when you read, not in the comics but on Page 1, that entire sections of Arizona are now under the control of Mexican drug cartels. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says his deputies are outgunned and outmanned by the drug traffickers.
Listen to him: "Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona. They have radios. They have optics. They have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has."
We're not talking about "occupied" ranches in Texas just across the border from Mexico, a rumor spread earlier this year. We're talking about territory 70 to 80 miles north of the border; 30 miles from the fifth largest city in the United States. Sheriff Babeu says he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers. Instead he got 15 signs warning folks to stay away from the badlands.
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