In the wake of reports of nine Americans being killed in a highway ambush in Mexico, President Trump is talking up this being the “time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.”
Trump is urging Mexico’s “great new president” to endorse this new war, saying that the cartels are big and “you sometimes need an army to defeat an army.” Mexico’s President Obrador has rejected the proposed war.
US-Mexico relations all but preclude the idea of taking up Trump’s offer of a formal joint war inside Mexican territory, and Trump’s prediction of winning this Mexico War quickly and effectively is probably unrealistic at any rate.
After all, the “need an army to defeat an army” comment aside, it’s not as though Mexico, a nation of 125 million people, doesn’t have a formidable military as it is. The cartels are built around resisting heavy actions by military and law enforcement, and it’s not as simple as throwing the US military at them and expecting fast success in a complicated environment.
Here’s an idea. How about instead of Corporal Bonespurs leading us in a Mexican-American War II, we eliminate the primary reason all those cartels exist? How about we legalize drugs and eliminate the demand for their product. That ain’t gonna happen, of course, because too many people in the US are making too much money ~ not selling drugs ~ but enforcing anti-drug laws. Every dime of every dollar spent on America’s so-called “War On Drugs” [WOD] has gone into the pocket of some American.
And that War on Drugs is about as successful as our “War On Poverty” [WOP] and our so-called “Global” so-called “War On” so-called “Terrorism” [GWOT]: ie, Not at all.
But lots and lots and lots of money continues to flow into the pockets of our WODers, WOPers, and GWOTers.
And this past weekend, the US national, sovereign, federal debt reached $23 trillion. But the stock markets hit an all time high, so everybody’s happy to just continue pretending that the Debt is no big deal, and that the looming bankruptcies of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other federal Entitlements programs are nothing for anybody to be concerned about.
And that $23 trillion federal Debt does not include state and local government, corporate, small business, consumer, or private debt.
For some reason our governments are imbued if not mesmerized with waging wars, real and unreal. War on Poverty. War on Drugs. War on Terror. The State of Liberty gives a false impression of who we are. She ought to be replaced with a statue of Ares or Thor slinging a thunderbolt at NYC.
More brilliance from the principled man of peace and liberty. The man puts a lot of thought into what comes out of that piehole. Can’t wait for the second four years.
Oh look, another nail……..
The saddest thing is, we are so BAD at war too … Both the real kind and these fake “wars” against every vice and nonsense we can throw some money at. No, really, what recent “war” have we decisively won? Anyone?
Don’t forget the war on Christmas……………;?)
We wouldn’t be sending Mexico our best. Rapists… murderers… I mean, why would we be sending our best?
Did someone say U.S.’s Law and Order is much better than Mexico’s?
Man watching Trump supporters cheering this on, its like they are all smoking crack. Sure, we have been trying this prohibition thing for 100 years… but now that Trump is in their all of a sudden its something that is achievable. There is literally nowhere and in nothing that these bootlickers wouldn’t follow Trump. You mean we’re gonna build a ladder to the moon with popsicle sticks…brilliant!