Photo courtesy of the Huffington Post.

America is tired of wars in far-flung places. Maybe it is time to replace them with military conflicts closer to home!

Just as US troops may or may not be leaving Iraq, one Presidential candidate has suggested U.S. forces should be deployed in Mexico.

Former Governor of Texas Rick Perry has suggested military force as a possible solution to the ongoing drug cartel violence along the Mexican border.

The cartels, which are estimated to have killed nearly 35,000 people in the last five years, are not unfamiliar to Perry, who called for increased security forces along the border during his term as governor.

The U.S. has sought to step up efforts to combat the violence which has potential to spill stateside. Some say the US is a partner in this growing calamity.

A Senate report in June 2011 suggested some 70% of firearms recovered from Mexican crime scenes in 2009 and 2010 came from the US.

However, other critics argue that such a precipitous step as deploying troops would significantly sour relations between the U.S. and Mexico and infringe upon Mexico’s sovereignty.

Rep. Roberto Badillo, Secretary of the National Defense Committee in the Mexican Congress said in a 2009 Time magazine article,

“I would never, ever, support the intervention of foreign troops in our territory, and that is the way that 99.9% of Mexicans think. Perhaps someone should tell Mr. Perry?”