Fwd: Geopolitics with Robert D. Kaplan: With the Focus on Syria, Mexico Burns

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Date: March 28, 2012 10:49:07 AM MST

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Subject: Geopolitics with Robert D. Kaplan: With the Focus on Syria, Mexico Burns

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This is FREE intelligence for distribution. Forward this to your colleagues. With the Focus on Syria, Mexico Burns By Robert D. Kaplan | March 28, 2012 While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria -- half a world away from the United States -- more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States' southern border, Mexico will affect America's destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East. Indeed, Mexico may constitute the world's seventh-largest economy in the near future. Certainly, while the Mexican violence is largely criminal, Syria is a more clear-cut moral issue, enhanced by its own strategic consequences. A calcified authoritarian regime in Damascus is stamping out dissent with guns and artillery barrages. Moreover, regime change in Syria, which the rebels demand, could deliver a pivotal blow to Iranian influence in the Middle East, an event that would be the best news to U.S. interests in the region in years or even decades. Read More » Comments? Send them to feedback@stratfor.com New to STRATFOR? Get these free intel reports emailed to you. If you did not receive this report directly from us and would like more geopolitical reports, join our free email list.

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