How do YOU spell irony?

This is a quick one, and I certainly hope the guy is OK, but you can't beat this headline for irony. According to Reuters:

U. S. anti-kidnap expert kidnapped in Mexico

More to the point is that Mexico is a mess. Someone recently wrote that if this keeps up, we are going to have an Hispanic version of Afghanistan south of our border. A country out of control that is largely run by the mob. Drug lords, warlords. Same diff.

David Danelo in an op-ed piece on a McCalatchy website put it most succinctly:

Mexico, our second-largest trading partner, is a fragmenting state that may spiral toward failure as the recession and drug violence worsen.

But nothing will change while Cabo is quiet and Cancun still has sun and margaritas.