Uh-huh, yeah, right, sure:
Vicious drug war in Mexican city is spilling across the border, threatening commerce; even police are afraid
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The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President George W. Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: giant military contractors.
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, three of the largest, are among the companies that said they would submit bids within two weeks for a multibillion-dollar contract to build what the administration calls a "virtual fence" along the U.S. borders.
Using some of the same high-priced, high-tech tools these companies have already put to work in Iraq and Afghanistan
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America can look to Israel as a valuable test case as it contemplates construction of a fence along the Mexican border.
