Mexico Angry at U.S. Official’s ‘Insurgency’ Remark
The Associated Press, via The Houston Chronicle, reports that Mexico is angry at a U.S. official’s ‘insurgency’ remark. It seems Mexico’s Interior Department took great exception to U.S. Undersecretary of the Army Joseph Westphal’s comment “as all of you know, there is a form of insurgency in Mexico with the drug cartels that’s right on our border” on Monday at the Hinckley Institute of Politics. Westphal has since retracted his categorization of Mexico’s drug-related violence saying he “mistakenly characterized the challenge posed by drug cartels to Mexico as “a form of insurgency.”” Mark Krikorian of National Review Online’s The Corner says “the number-two civilian official in the Army committed a Kinsleyan gaffe Monday by telling the truth.”
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