The Mexican Cartels: America’s Greatest Terrorist Threat

Our nation is suffering death by a hundred thousand cuts in the form of drug poisoning deaths every year, which are continuing to rise. On average, that’s three hundred Americans dying every single day. In addition to the exploding body count, four million of our fellow citizens enter substance abuse treatment programs every year, two million visit hospital emergency rooms suffering from drug overdose symptoms and, lastly, illegal drugs now cost our society over three trillion dollars per year in lost productivity, as well as social, criminal, and health related costs of every kind.

If one wished to purposefully introduce a chemical weapon of mass destruction into a society to destroy it from within, he would be hard pressed to find something more insidious than many of the modern synthetic drugs manufactured and distributed by Mexican drug cartels. In fact, at just two milligrams for a lethal dose, fentanyl is more deadly than many of the other compounds on the United Nations’ prohibited list of chemical weapons such as sarin, VX, strychnine, phosgene gas, and potassium cyanide.

Fentanyl continues to pour across our Southern border in ever more decimating amounts, killing more young Americans than any other cause. Methamphetamine has increased tenfold in the past decade. And now we see the emergence of the ghastly horse tranquilizer Xylazine being trafficked to our citizens. Mexican transnational criminal organizations are flooding this country with cheap, pure, highly addictive, and deadly drugs by the ton, manufactured with precursor chemicals profusely supplied by China. All designed for them to expand their power and riches on the backs of addicted and dead Americans. And too many of our “leaders” at every level remain feckless and mute.

In determining whether Mexican drug cartels should be labeled as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), one must first understand that terrorism is not a specific entity or a particular ideology, it is a tactic -- a tactic designed to cow and crush any opposition through violence and intimidation targeted at both the government and the people. The tactics of the Mexican predators have also worked tragically and alarmingly well against our own current regime in Washington.

The Rand Corporation recently produced an anemic position paper arguing that designating the drug cartels as FTOs is hardly a solution. Brian Jenkins, Rand’s senior advisor to the think tank, maintains that "drug trafficking and other organized criminal activities are already serious crimes in the United States" and there are ample statutes to deal with it. Well, maybe. But that would only be true if we had a president, attorney general, and the secretary of Homeland Security with the cojones to enforce existing law. They don't.

I’m not against the idea but there will be major pushback from the cartels that the public needs to be aware of. I was recently watching a podcast with a former DEA agent with experience dealing with the cartels who said the cartels are absolutely ruthless.

Before we got the border shut down the cartels would start sending drugs across the border that are fatal when used, instead of 100,000 a year dying perhaps double or triple that number would start dying

Then as the article stated the cartels have a presence in 3,000 American cities with people ready to commit acts of terrorism at any moment like shooting up schools, sporting events, etc.

We have to do something but we should be aware this situation is so bad the push back from the cartels would make 9/11 look like a picnic

I agree which is why we need to do something about the criminal element already here, but since our government refuses to do so, we are at their mercy.

The best we can do here is in states that allow concealed carry and are Constitutional carry states, everyone who can should be armed at all times. We cannot allow ourselves to become sitting ducks.

The cartel leaders and their families and children need to be killed, totally exterminated.

Using known information furnished by the DEA and signals intelligence used to kill off ISIS and Iranians, send a drone missile strike into Mexico. Kill them where they live.

Mexico? To hell with Mexico. Mexico is a bought and payed for subsidiary of the cartels and poses no threat to America. Killing people that are our enemies is the only solution to the problem

Deaths, lots and lots of drone deaths........ that’s the ticket.

If the last 20 years has taught us anything we should think about the consequences of rushing in and laying waste to a bunch of “bad guys”.

There is no question we can kill every major Cartel leader in Mexico, the cartel won’t just sit back and take getting killed.

They are far more entrenched in the USA than most people think, the article that started this thread stated, 3000 American Cities have a Mexican Cartel presence.

Fentanyl is supposedly killing 100,000 Americans a year, what happens if that number goes to 300,000 or more, all it would take is the Cartels to increase the Fentanyl in pills being smuggled across the border.

What happens if schools start getting shot up, perhaps multiple times a day or week, when the cartels in those 3000 cities start taking action.

What happens if Fentanyl gets dumped into the water supply of a small to medium sized city.

To say that is not going to happen is being naive IMO, we need to understand the potential consequences of attacking the Cartels in Mexico.

I agree we can’t sit back and do nothing, just be ready for the pushback.

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