Giving ground

While the follies continue overseas, and America's leadership recommits to the Great Game Redux, America itself is shrinking. Literally.

Warning signs were posted this past month by the federal government 80 miles North of the border on the South side of I-8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend urging U.S. citizens not to camp or hike in the "Active Drug and Human Smuggling Area" because "Visitors May Encounter Armed Criminals."

Think about it. A part of America is off limits to U.S. citizens because it is now controlled by an army of foreigners.

If we can't defend our own territory, we've no business having troops on anybody else's. For all the concern we express about "ungoverned" areas of "failed states" like Pakistan, we better be minding our own backyard.