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"Should the US military help the Mexican military take down the drug cartels? If so, when? If not, why not? "
yup and its been happening
---" Admiral: Mexico can learn from U.S. work fighting terrorists"
"There are an awful lot of similarities," said Adm. Michael Mullen.
Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke to reporters as he flew home from a weeklong visit to countries in Latin America, ending with Mexico on Friday.
"The intelligence support capabilities, tactics that evolved for us in our fight against networks in the terrorist world bears a direct application," Mullen said. "Certainly the kind of surveillance, reconnaissance doctrine that we use. And we've been working with them to cooperate with them as they've evolved. And they're evolving pretty rapidly."
In Mexico, Mullen, the top uniformed official in the U.S. military, discussed how the United States can continue to provide military training, intelligence and equipment to help Mexico fight the cartels.