Regina Regina:
I'd be more worried about going to Mexico.
I think I'd agree. At least going to Europe you expect to have problems with crime (Hamburg, Amsterdam, Marseilles, etc.) or terrorism, but when you go to Mexico you can be lulled into thinking it's a big resort when, in fact, it is far more dangerous than Afghanistan or Iraq.
In Afgh./Iraq there's been maybe 50,000 casualties on both sides in the past seven years. In Mexico some sources (Univison Spanish language TV here in Sacramento, for instance) that place the number of dead due to the Mexican drug insurrection of the past decade at some
280,000.
And that insurrection is spilling over into the US. Just this week a man was killed in the US by Mexicans while on a jet ski thinking he was just out to have a good time.
Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder if the next war the US gets into will be in Mexico. Not that it would be a war with Mexico, but a war to destroy the drug cartels after the Mexican government collapses - something that the drug cartels are working for.