Of course, US Special force could take out the Mexican Cartels, I would caution about how the Cartels would respond, it’s something that should be considered.
You constantly hear about the amount of Fentanyl coming across the border capable of killing millions of people. What if the Cartel upped the potency of the Fentanyl to 4-5x of it’s current levels, instead of 100,000 dead per year, it might be 400,000 per year, what if the Cartels dumped huge amounts of Fentanyl into the water supply of a major city and killed 1,000,000 people.
Yes, militarily, we can annihilate the current cartels, new ones would certainly take their place, closing the border and making it nearly impossible to get across, it seems to me, to be a better solution than getting involved in another potential war.
Same deal as taking out the Columbia cartels.
The current generation of cartel leaders are much more violent than their fathers. This should have been stopped a long time ago, but both parties are at fault for the situation we are in now.