Obama shouldn’t ignore the war next door

Jorge Castaneda

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama talked about the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, but didn’t say a word about a war that is taking place next door, and that is killing more people than the others: the drug-related war in Mexico and Central America.

Was it a careless omission? Or is Obama — and, to be fair, his Republican critics as well — deliberately overlooking