Dan Crenshaw can kiss my ample ass. Stupid idea coming from a tyrant wannabe. Texas, bring this loser home.
Posted on 09/08/2023 10:11:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A trendy idea among GOP candidates would fail, just as it did in Colombia.
Using the U.S. military in Mexico to deal with the fentanyl crisis in the United States is the hot new policy solution for lots of U.S. politicians. The top three Republican presidential candidates have endorsed using the U.S. military to fight Mexican cartels. Similarly, Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw, the newly appointed chair of a congressional task force for countering Mexican cartels, announced recently that “Colombia is the model” for what Washington needs to do in Mexico.
Crenshaw is the author of a bill in Congress authorizing the use of military force against Mexican cartels or any actor “carrying out other related activities that cause regional destabilization in the Western Hemisphere.” He argues that the “American partnership” with Colombia helped make the country safer today than it was 25 years ago and that this provides a model for dealing with Mexican cartels:
“We need to somehow figure out diplomatically how to make this Mexico’s idea. That they’re asking for our military support, such as close air support, such as an AC-130 gunship overhead while they’re prosecuting a target and surrounded by sicarios. … If I was in that situation as a Navy SEAL, we would just call in close air support, all those guys would be gone, and we’d move along our merry way.”
This is bad analysis on a number of levels: bad history, bad economics, and bad political science. Since Crenshaw has volunteered himself as an expert on Colombia—he went to high school there—and its lessons for fighting the war on drugs with the U.S. military, we can start with his proposals.
In an Instagram post, Crenshaw stated, “Anyone who has watched Narcos knows that the Colombia of 30 years ago looked a lot like Mexico
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Trump knew how to get Mexican cooperation. Cut off their welfare.
When did that happen?
Trump threatened to impose a broad tariff on Mexican exports to the US, even to the point of having the order prepared and ready for his signature. Realizing that Trump was serious, the Mexicans promptly agreed to use Mexican troops to control the border and accommodate the remain in Mexico policy for asylum seekers.
Nuke Mexico.
Thank you! Nicely stated.
We need The Wall. It is probably too late to get a handle on fentanyl but it will stanch toe invasion of the Third World and Chinese armies that are flowing freely across what was once the border. The cartels are all through the Southwest now and in a short time will control the politics and culture of several states. The cartels can only be dealt with by shoot on sight orders to a military force and something like regional martial law. That, however is, itself the end of the Republic. The Party is turning over large swaths of the USA to the Mexican Cartels which are also represented in places like Chicago and Indianapolis and are or will be allied with the traditional Mob.
The problem is the border itself. It’s too irregular. Buy the Baja Peninsula & a 10 mile strip of land immediately south of AZ and NM from Mexico. That would create a barrier and stop much of the trafficking.
And still after giving DACA amnesty to the dems he didn’t get secure our border. He did put American citizens and their children in the back of the line for better paying jobs though.
Agree.. that solve most of the problems and follow up with DC when Congress is in session.
The military on our border would help a ton. So would napalming known cartel compounds (take out the big leaders, the peons take time to reorganize, if at all).
They should be at our border protecting America!
As long as people want drugs and are willing to pay for them. There will always be drugs. You can’t stop it from the supply side.
Only way to defeat the Fentanyl crisis is to elect Trump.
Dan Crenshaw can kiss my ample ass. Stupid idea coming from a tyrant wannabe. Texas, bring this loser home.
Irony:
If the US can’t do that, then the uke proxy war is genuinely a folly and the ultimate hypocrisy.
These people are diseased in the head. Some here, too.
Stated Official US policy, ever since we gave up our admitted bio and chemical weapons was that we’d respond to any attack by either with nuclear weapons. So “Nuke Mexico” might fit, but I’d suggest a different aiming point. After thousands dead from the Wuhan lab release and thousands more dead from precursor chemicals sold by China to the Cartels for making Fentanyl, “Nuke China.” Admittedly with the Wu Flu we maybe also should Nuke Fauci and a few others; buy some of Putin’s special umbrellas. < tongue, loosely, in cheek >
1. Finish the wall.
2. Punitive tariffs on Mexican goods if they do no cooperate.
3. Smuggle fentanyl, go to jail for a long time.
4. Sell fentanyl, go to to jail for a long time.
5. Repeat offenders get the death penalty.
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