A reader asks:

Does anyone believe that Obama’s Guard deployment, so proximate to his scolding from Calderon, was not pre-approved — if not outright directed by – the Mexican president himself (as a sop to the stupid Anglos)?

I think “pre-cleared” is probably more accurate. But get this, from the Mexican embassy’s statement on the Guard deployment:

Additionally, the Government of Mexico expects that National Guard personnel will strengthen US operations in the fight against transnational organized crime that operates on both sides of our common border and that it will not, in accordance to its legal obligations, conduct activities directly linked to the enforcement of immigration laws.

So now they’re lecturing us about the “legal obligations” of the National Guard? Unbelievable.