War zone USA

As civilization sinks throughout the western world every neighborhood is now a war zone.  This is very evident in Detroit apparently - quite an astonishing case according to writer Matthew J. Nasuti.

His post post Sunday at Pacific Free Press 'U.S. Troops Are Needed More in Detroit than Afghanistan: Americans in the U.S. face greater dangers than residents of Kabul' says:

The city of Detroit, Michigan is more dangerous than most areas of Afghanistan. Drug gangs control whole neighborhoods and there are reportedly areas of the city where the local police refuse to go.

Last year there were 344 murders in Detroit and just in January 2012, there were 38 murders, a further dramatic increase. The cause is an unemployment rate of up to 25% and financial woes, which have led to a reduction in the size of the Detroit Police Department from almost 5,000 officers to about 2,000.

Wealthy neighborhoods, such as Sherwood Forest and Boston-Edison, have hired private mercenary groups to patrol their neighborhoods. Vigilante killings are increasing as residents take the law into their own hands. Over a quarter million Detroit residents have fled the city over the past few years. Can any city in Afghanistan boast of greater violence? 

The wealthy and privileged within the Obama Administration are as oblivious to the reality within America, as they are oblivious to the realities within foreign countries. This is one of the reasons why America's foreign policy is in tatters. U.S. officials study maps and aerial photos of Afghanistan and Pakistan, when they should be studying maps of the U.S./Mexican border and gathering intelligence on drug cartels that operate across the United States. Senate and House committees brief each other on the exaggerated a-Qaeda threat, when the real war against American is being waged by the drug cartels, and that war is being ignored. There is a cancer spreading within the United States, but it is one currently limited to poor and minority neighborhood so the Government has been able to push it below the radar.

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In conclusion, U.S. troops are needed at home. The war is at home. The enemy has already breached the walls of Fortress America and they are digging in and expanding. The Obama bubble is increasingly difficult to pierce with facts and reality.

The complete post is here.