Mexican drug cartels' newest weapon: Cold War-era grenades made in U.S.
• Washington PostGrenades made in the US and sent to Central America resurface as terrifying new weapons in weekly attacks by Mexican drug cartels. Sent to battle communist revolutionaries in the jungles of Central America, US grenades are being diverted
Hmmm. Interesting, these words "diverted" and "redeployed" come up. As if any of this was a surprise or even unintended. The "drug was industry" is still going fine and the same cast of criminals North and South are benefitting handsomely. These weapons aren't diverted as through through some clerical error or a couple boxes fell of a truck and "somehow made it into the wrong hands". These weapons aren't redeployed, they are deployed RIGHT WHERE WE PUT THEM.
The story should be familliar to every American: we arm the viper and it bites us. But it's not. So alas, the memory of Ronnie Reagan and the Contra-coke pipeline is submerged in the annals of enshrined GOP history.
Soooo... The Mexican and US Goobermints were right when they sad the Cartel's military grade weapons were coming from north of the border. They just didn't tell us that our Government was doing the shipping...