Whack-a-mole: Poll: 49 pct of Mexicans think drug war a failure

The Mexican public on President Calderon's "whack-a-mole" war. This is sounding a lot like some other wars we have known:Vietnam, Iraq.

Poll: 49 pct of Mexicans think drug war a failure: "Nearly half the Mexican public considers President Felipe Calderon's offensive against drug cartels a failure, a poll suggested Tuesday for the first time since the conservative leader launched the deadly crackdown in 2006.

The survey shows 49 percent of respondents consider the crackdown has failed, compared with just 33 percent who think it has succeeded. Last time the Mitofsky polling agency conducted the same survey, in March, the results were almost the opposite, with 47 percent of those polled considering the drug war a success, while 36 percent thought it a failure." Nov. 23, 2010, AP/Washington Post