‘And there’s a reason we don’t win. We don’t truly want to, as demonstrated by our unwillingness to do the hard things required to win. Could you imagine the Democrats siding with America in a war on Mexican drug cartels? If you can, you’re higher than Hoover Biden at a strip club on a Saturday night.”
Mexico has drug cartels because the US has illegal drug users. We have obviously lost “The War on Drugs” in the US and for the same reason it will be futile to wage one in Mexico. Eliminating supply will not eliminate demand. Supply will be available so longs as the pricer is paid. Ask the Afghanis.
Do we want to take the harsh actions needed to eliminate demand for illegal drugs? No of course not.
Same principal for the deer population. It cannot be controlled by thinning bucks since just a few bucks or even one can populate the herd.
Less than a third of pot sales in CA are legal, since the state taxes it, meaning legal outlets pay and the drug dealers don’t. Do you seriously think that legalizing drugs will make the drug gangs shrug, get legal and give up probably about 50% of their profits?
This is an entrenched criminal network and it’s international and makes serious efforts to get Americans addicted, particularly taking advantage of pre-Trump despair in rural and semi-rural areas. Get these people working and respected and they won’t be doing Chinese made drugs smuggled by the gangs through Mexico.
Sorry, but we need to treat this like the war that it is. The fact that the gang rolled into this town with the gang initials and logo professionally painted on the side of their trucks - at least two of which had Texas plates - means that we have a serious problem here and Mexico is not capable of dealing with it.
I disagree
dry up the supply and the demand will end. There may be more alcoholics in the end, but the cartels will disappear.