[pessimizer]

>Probably we need to consider how US would react if an Al-Qaeda linked group starts taking over northern villages of Mexico while a civil war is going on in there.

Why would "al-Qaeda linked" groups be considered more dangerous than the mass-murdering cartels? Mexico is almost a failed state and we haven't invaded.

[notahacker]

Unlike Islamist terror groups' views on secular Turkey, the mass murdering cartels have no particular interest in US regime change. That said US military units can and frequently do carpet bomb parts of Latin America with herbicides as part of the War on Drugs, so it's a stone cold certainty that the US military has discussed strategies for targeting Mexican cartels and what level of provocation/support would be needed to prompt direct military involvement.

If US politicians were publicly stating willingness to intervene militarily in Mexico to protect a purely symbolic target, as appears to be the case here (link [5] above) I'd expect that behind closed doors leaders would be discussing what would be necessary to win international support, and sceptics would be expressing similar cynicism about whether the talking tough was really more about domestic politics.

[shna]

There is not a civil war in Mexico, is it? Mexican government is not bombing Mexican cities with fighter jets either. 120,000 (actually 658,000 if proportioned it to Mexican population) people have not died in Mexico in the last 3 years, and 3 million (12 million) people have not displaced as refugee in bordering countries either. Would you like me to go on?

Mexican government is fully cooperating with US and not acting like an enemy towards US, eh?

[pessimizer]

>There is not a civil war in Mexico, is it?

Depends on who you ask.

>120,000 (actually 658,000 if proportioned it to Mexican population) people have not died in Mexico in the last 3 years

No, more like 100,000 in eight. What's your threshold?

>3 million (12 million) people have not displaced as refugee in bordering countries either.

http://usopenborders.com/2012/04/160000-mexicans-displaced-i...

edit: I'm not using Mexican figures to say that fabricating evidence in order to invade is wrong - it just is. I'm saying that using the US as a justification is illegitimate. The US has a record of invading countries in order to enrich itself. To say that Turkey is invading for the same reasons that the US invades is to say that Turkey is going to lie to its own people and the world in order to make a resource grab. That's awful, and a lot of people think that Blair and Bush should be in prison for it.

[shna]

Nowhere I said Turkey should invade or anything. This is a bit getting out of hand. I just wanted to draw attention giving an example. However creating a temporary buffer zone where a terrorist group already taken control of is not unthinkable either.