US Protects Only Some People

[From article]
"If we have a "responsibility to protect" the people of Libya, who are dying by the thousands, how can that same re sponsibility not apply to our southern neighbor, where the war between the drug lords and the government has killed nearly 40,000 people and is even producing mass graves?
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the Mexican state of Durango, bringing the total there to 218 dumped bodies and surpassing Tamaulipas state, where "only" 183 bodies were found in mass graves last month.
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300 drug-related deaths a week, complete with grotesque hangings, mass graves and more gore than a Quentin Tarantino movie.
[. . .]
Obama declared, "When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act."
[. . .]
the elusive "Responsibility to Protect" concept."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mexican_mayhem_TuMOTn6Kjv0I7bPA7PJ6vI

Mexican mayhem
Does the US have a duty to protect?
Benny Avni
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:44 AM, May 16, 2011
Posted: 10:06 PM, May 15, 2011