Posted on 11/08/2011 6:03:13 PM PST by Texas Fossil
The US Drug Enforcement Agency has five commando-style squads it has been quietly deploying for the past several years to various countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean, the New York Times reported Monday.
The countries where the commando teams have been deployed include Haiti, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Belize, all countries struggling to combat drug trafficking, the daily wrote.
The program, known by its acronym FAST -- Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team -- dates back to the George W. Bush administration. It was created originally to investigate Taliban-linked drug traffickers in Afghanistan.
But US President Barack Obama beginning in 2008 broadened its mandate beyond the Afghan war zone, according to the Times.
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They did not mention any operations in Mexico. I have for some time realized that Mexico is incapable of dealing with the cartels. Eventually it will require military action to stop them in Mexico. The Mexican military is not up to that task. Corruption & inability.
Under another president I would be cheering this effort. But under Obozo, it is hopeless.
Absent the "War On (some) Drugs", this would have all gone away by now.
It has long been my opinion that the U.S. should not be involved in this foreign adventurism.
Shows them, their choppers, and all their stupid Nomex ninjya kook-gear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oYZRiTQHVo
MISSION CREEP BIG TIME.
When a country fights a long-term, low-intensity war, it’s soldiers are hijacked into being cops, and steadily cops become SOLDIERS.
Watch it.
All that and they won’t make a bit of difference.
When Mexican cartels are prepared to lose 1 out of every 10 submersibles carrying eight tons of raw yayo, then one can see how fruitless the current way the WOD is being prosecuted.
Agreed. Do you have in mind a different way that would be fruitful?
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