Here's a bit more, for hitting them at home:
Here's the rest of my initial force for dealing with the drug cartels, the thoroughly updated "Puff the Magic Dragon":
Drop daisycutters on the mansions of the kingpins in mexico and panama and columbia at the same time.
We have to call these folks what they are....terrorists. Plain and simple.
They are a clear and present danger to our society.
Thanks , good article.
At 3:30 am one evening, F-18s drop 2000 pound JDAMs on several dozen well known hacienda and production sites. At 0700am HSBC, Wells Fargo, and other dope banks are seized.
If you fight cartels and laundering banks aren’t mentioned, you aren’t serious.
Most of these responses are conventional and have been tried to a certain extent and have been proven ineffective against these people..
These people are barbarians. They use cruel and terrifying tactics against people they perceive as their enemies.
You can’t treat them the same as you do a more civilized soldier or warrior from an insurgency like those we have faced in the middle east. In the middle east, they kill anyone they can find and its often in a manner that is horrific to peoples of western culture, but they are still not as barbarous as these cartel members are because the cartels will go after the families of their enemies. Most upstanding citizens whether they are average joes, police, politicians, or military are going to be cowed by that.
The only thing that will defeat them is to play the same game. Kill and maim their families to the nth degree. If they want to make that part of their methodology then its ok for us to do the same.
I understand that this lacks civility and compassion but its the only way to win. Cutting the drug demand won’t do it. Sending in the troops won’t do it. You have to make them fear you as they fear nothing else.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
“who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
close the entire mexican us border save a couple heavily fortified entry points, everyone and everything gets a detailed check.
declare 100 miles deep into mexico a dmz border.
that becomes an active live training ground for the us military - all branches.
training ops to take out targets, test equipment and systems, test new strategies.
anyone in the dmz is a target.
Here's a bit more, for hitting them at home:
Here's the rest of my initial force for dealing with the drug cartels, the thoroughly updated "Puff the Magic Dragon":
How about no drug needs on this side of the border?
Well defeating the open-borders, sanctuary-cities Democrats would be a good start!
Unless step 1 involves the Federal Reserve Corporation and US Banks, nothing else really matters.
You Can NOT have a War on Drugs without Drugs.
I am dubious of the supposition that labeling the cartels as terrorist organizations would automatically result in a huge influx of asylum claims. The author only cites a Mexican government source and I don’t trust the Mexican government. There is no elaboration as to why this is so. The use of military forces in a combat role along the border and even into Mexico would seem to have a similar effect and the author doesn’t seem concerned.
The other idea of using Tier 1 special operations groups like Delta and SEAL Team 6 in close cooperation with the Mexican government is also a non-starter. The op sec problems with that would be massive. The author is naive to even suggest it.