US pledges choppers to Mexico

The United States has pledged $80 million to help the Mexicans buy Blackhawks to use fighting drug cartels. Ms. Clinton says the U.S. shares some responsibility for the drug trade, since demand for illegal drugs in the U.S. helps fuel the war in Mexico. The article states again the non sequitur idea that rocket launchers and grenades in Mexico are the result of the legal gun trade in the U.S. This could only be true if there was no regulation of these items in the United States, which has not been true for over 70 years...