The Washington Post on 4/5 offers an intriguing interview with Terry Goddard. The Attorney General of Arizona, a conservative bastion, has some surprising comments about immigration control, gun control, and how the U.S. can minimize the threat of the Mexican drug cartels:

Excerpts:

"Marijuana is the profit center for the cartels. We think approximately 65 percent of the total revenue that the cartels get from drug smuggling is based on marijuana. You could say indirectly that much of the carnage in Mexico is financed because of profits from marijuana."


"Today we have an extraordinary amount of national treasure that's spent on surveillance and customs enforcement and just about every technique you can think of, and they jump over it, they tunnel under it, they use deceptive tactics to divert the Border Patrol and then come across in other locations. And they have been able to stay at least a half a step ahead of the authorities to the point that the smuggling that we're watching most carefully -- the drugs and human beings -- has continued unabated."

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