Whack-a-mole: Hillary Clinton Interview With Televisa

*** Here is an interview by Mexican television with Secretary of State Clinton during her visit to Mexico yesterday, Jan. 24. The interviewer challenges her controversial "Mexico is like Colombia" comment made last year and she "clarifies" it.

She also says that the drug war "is not a national security issue in a traditional sense. It’s a border security issue, and for that reason it’s something we take very seriously. It’s an organized crime issue, ... "

Her responses to questions as to whether drug sale and consumption should be legalized and to marijuana legalization side-step the questions, turning them into ones of decriminalization that, she says, won't work because the cartels would still be making huge sums of money. Unfortunately, the interviewer does not follow-up on her evasion of the questions. Legalizing sales would, of course, eliminate the cartels' mega-profits. 

Interview With Denise Maerker of Televisa: "QUESTION: In Mexico, there are those who propose not keeping going with this battle and legalize drug trafficking and consumption. What is your opinion?

SECRETARY CLINTON: I don't think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. There is just too much money in it, and I don't think that – you can legalize small amounts for possession, but those who are making so much money selling, they have to be stopped. They can’t be given an even easier road to take, because they will then find it in their interest to addict even more young people. Mexico didn’t have much of a drug problem before the last 10 years, and you want to keep it that way. So you don’t want to give any excuse to the drug traffickers to be able legally to addict young people."