A very important logistical component of this operation was the believe of the Obama admin that DEATH —probably on a large scale— would eventuate.
Turn THAT over in your mind and what it says about the values of the people who used YOUR money to permit this. What things might they NOT be willing to do..?
Also, it appears that a part of Operation Castaway in Honduras had the FOREIGN POLICY objective of punishing the new Honduran Prez via creation of a new, de-facto narcoMarxist army there.
A likely secondary aim of Castaway; the new Honduran admin there would be embattled with completely new levels of violence from US guns, and would complain to the UN, which would then demand that the US sign the UN charter on small-arms trade.
So:
1. A Honduran Obama enemy would be punished
2. US gun-owners would lose their rights
3. Obama could cast himself as simply bowing to foreign pressure
ALL THAT WAS REQUIRED WAS FOR A BUNCH OF FOLKS TO DIE
A leftist will always accuse YOU of the thing they’re about to do —”Bush lied and people died...”
Where is Drudge and Breitbart on all this? This is bigger than Monica...
Finished cocaine is bought by Mexies for $3,000 per key, while unprocessed BASE is just $1,000. How might Mexies TRIPLE their profits with about the same risk? A bit like the oil industry; by moving upstream and also owning the mechanism for processing cocaine base in central America.
Docs related to F&F and Castaway show an interesting confluence of Mexy narco financial interests with Obama political interests:
Mexicans wanted a Honduran operating environment permitting for their own cocaine processing there, further south to the source of the product. This would permit Mexicans to bypass middlemen, collecting the profits these others had enjoyed to that point.
Meanwhile, via arms sales to these dangerous Mexican criminals, Obama would win its own new friends in Central America. As a topper, in the process he would also end up disallowing easy gun sales to law-abiding Americans —call it the Chicago-ization of the whole USA.
Note that more and more docs uncovered refer to “DEA, ATF **AND OTHER AGENCIES” —so this imbroglio clearly had SECRET FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVES.
—>THIS IS IRAN-CONTRA ALL OVER AGAIN<—
I gotta say...that's not possible. US gun owners can be enjoined by a repressive government from exercising their God given rights. But pukes like Obama can't cause us to lose them.
Semantics? Perhaps. But it is a distinction that will be made very clear to anyone who knocks on my door trying to confiscate my firearms.
Great summation!