Is War With Mexico — or “Just” a Border “Surge” — on the Horizon?

The N.Y. Times had an ominous report yesterday about U.S. plans for a “surge” along the U.S./Mexico border:  “The soaring level of violence in Mexico resulting from the drug wars there has led the United States to develop plans for a “surge” of civilian and perhaps even military law enforcement should the bloodshed spread across the border, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday.”

KJ