Well, Obama already sent the weapons...
Does he want to invade a sovereign nation?
So I should vote for Palin since she is in and doing so well in the polls. Swell.
Perry is insane.
Either we place troops to secure our own border or we invade Mexico to make it ours. Anything else is poltics piad for with the blood of our warriors.
Okay, I’m not saying there aren’t circumstances under which it might be a really good idea to take military action against those trolls. That said, I’m amused by the idea that a fence would be an intolerable hardship on border landowners and a shooting war wouldn’t be.
Wonder how he is going to handle this one when they ask him aout it at the next debate?
Dear Governor Perry: Simple solution - put armed troops shoulder to shoulder on the U.S. side of the entire border between Mexico and Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California while a ginormous solid wall is being built the entire length. Seal all the tunnels. Search everything going to and from. Refuse entry to illegals, confiscate and destroy drugs and guns coming in and guns going out. Put a few select CEO’s who hire illegals in prison as an example to all.
Considering the CIA intel stated upthread, the only troops needed are the pilots of a B2 and a squadron of de-mothballed F117s.
Fly in at 30,000 or higher at 4 a.m., bomb the HQs/bases of the cartels and the homes of their main-mid level people, return home and leave no radar sig to mark our passing. The Mex military then has a ‘chance’ at getting it controlled in the aftermath and disorganization.
And just play dumb about it.
Other than that, nope. Not short of a full-sacle invasion/war and NOT with Obama or General Perry as CIC.
I’m open to people sending $100 bills to 2ndDivisionVet...
We’re already doing some of this, and it appears that local and State forces will be training Mexican law enforcement:
http://wingright.org/2011/08/29/us-law-enforcement-to-expand-training-in-mexico/
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-mexico-border-news/texas-mexico-border/texas-peace-officers-train-mexican-law-enforcment/
Perry is an idiot, you do not need any further proof.
Congress would neve allow it,they need the bribe money.
US troops (particularly Special Forces) were very important in getting a grip on the problem in Columbia, which had exactly the same problem with its drug gangs, combined in that case with overt Marxist guerrillas (FARC).
Mexico doesn’t have the latter, although it is well known that the drug gangs work closely with the leftist groups, in some cases, leaders of the municipal unions. Drug supply and shipment to the US through Mexico is one of the big money sources for the two most Marxist countries in Latin America, which are Cuba and Venezuela.
Mexico requested help from the US some time ago in the form of military advisers, but I don’t think Bambi wanted to give it, probably because it would interefere with a leftist “revolutionary” funding source. However, since then, I think the Mexican government has seen things like Fast and Furious and does not trust the US in any way. Perhaps this will change once Obama is out of office.
Just reclassify the drug lords as a class of “terrorist” and send in the Predator dones. Case closed!
That is just so wrong. Not only will it not work but it’ll wind up corrupting American troops. There’s just too much money involved. And drugs.
I’m for sending troops also, but I think we should conquer the rotten country and make sure their people stay on their side of the border.
is it just me or does this sound like a really bad idea?
Just build a Israeli type fence and put troops on the border.
Sending troops into that craphole is a bad thing.