In Texas, we are very concerned about that war going on across El Paso!

So let's talk about Mexico again! Sadly, it's not pretty south of the border these days!

STRATEGY PAGE is one of our favorite websites. They specialize in military and national security issues.

SP has been covering Mexico extensively because of the national security implications south of the border.

Like many of us, SP's editors understand that what happens in Mexico matters in the US!

Today, they report this:

"Gunmen armed with AK-47 automatic rifles killed 17 people in Ciudad Juarez.

One of the people murdered was a police officer.

Currently the government deploys 8,500 soldiers and federal police in the city.

Ciudad Jurarez however, is simply too attractive a geographic and information warfare target for the cartelistas.

Juarez is a huge city on the U.S. border, so it is a geographic “drug corridor” to the U.S. and Canada.

It is also directly in the cameras of American television stations.

The cartels want a constant bloodbath in Juarez because they believe American media will regard the bloodbath as a Mexican government failure.

The fact is, Mexico is at war.

The government decided it would fight the cartels, which had become deeply embedded in northern Mexico's economic and judicial structures.

The cartels are betting that rampant murder, intimidation and media reports of the violence will deal the government a psychological defeat.

When the military withdraws, then the cartels will return to business as usual.

So far the government has responded by increasing the pressure.

The government regards Ciudad Juarez as a major battle against the cartels."

Let's review.........Cd Juarez is a war zone......it sits across from El Paso!

Mexico's national security is under siege....

Mexico's army is fighting people using AK-47 automatic rifles....

let me repeat.....AK-47 automatic rifles, or the same ones that the US soldiers run into in Afghanistan or Iraq......

and Pres Obama's State Dept is worried about "human rights violations" in Mexico?

It gets worse. Last week, I saw this AP story:

"Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, is Mexico’s most violent city, with at least 1,400 people killed this year alone."

Today, we saw this horrific story:

"A local politician and his wife and two sons have been brutally killed in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco.

Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, was beheaded, his sons aged eight and 10 were suffocated and his wife was shot in the head, local news media said on Sunday, citing police sources."

We ask again: Why are Pres BO and the Dems hung up on human rights violations when Mexico faces enemies like these? Somebody needs to give Pres BO a crash course in national security!