[Mojave]

The liberals and libertarians would have been outraged if any on the marijuana smugglers had suffered any harm.

[jmc813]

The liberals and libertarians would have been outraged if any on the marijuana smugglers had suffered any harm.

Uhhhh, the libertarians on FR that I know of are the strongest proponents of border security and organizations like the Minutemen. It is your authoritarian buddies like the late great Cultural Jihad who are open-border lobbyists.

[NJ_gent]

"The liberals and libertarians would have been outraged if any on the marijuana smugglers had suffered any harm."

You're confusing libertarians (like myself) with Libertarians (open borders nutjobs). Personally, I want rapid reaction forces on standby for the next time something like this happens so we can chase them as far into Mexico as we need to to kill and/or capture every last one of them. Deploy the National Guard along the border and deal with military incursions the way they should be dealt with: massively overwhelming military force.

I have no problem with us responding to acts of war, and I consider incursions like this to be perfectly legitimate reasons for a full-scale invasion of northern Mexico to stamp out whoever's doing it. If it's the Mexican military that's doing it, then the 4th ID needs to march into Mexico City and dismantle the Mexican military.

You'll find that most (small L) libertarians agree with me.