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The usefulness of military force is often severely limited by strict rules of engagement.
The cartels are thoroughly embedded in the local populations. It would be nearly impossible to pick out cartel members from the local population and even if you had a way to do it they would float in and out of active threat status on a daily or hourly basis. Total warfare would mean a slaughter of innocents.
Armies are built to fight armies.
Now add in the fact that the cartels have active operations in places like Guatemala and El Salvador. Would we invade multiple nations?
And what about American lives ruined by over prescribing addictive drugs, should we launch the military at those pushers too?
I know it's trendy to whine about the Mexicans but what about easily found stories of things like a US wholesaler shipping millions of doses of opioids to a little town of a few hundred?
Makes more sense than blaming guns for school shootings.
Can we please, please, please, please, please just abandon the idiotic and utterly failed Prohibition II (AKA the War on Drugs)??? Legalize and/or decriminalize all illicit drugs!! If the guy next door wants to ruin his life on heroin or crack or meth or PCP or whatever, just let him! He can already do that legally with alcohol, can't he? By all means, shift a big chunk of the money we're wasting on the Drug War to rehabilitation and treatment for addicts. Probably save a helluva lot more lives in the process and we wouldn't be creating criminal organizations powerful enough to topple or control governments in Latin America.
Guess what happens to the drug cartels and inner city gangs when you legalize everything? They go out of business, that's what.
If we can take out the drug cartels and MS-13, we remove the justification illegal aliens make for coming across our border. Remember in the 1990s one of the rationales behind NATO intervention in Kosovo and Bosnia was to stabilize the Balkans because refugees were invading Western Europe by the droves due to the wars there.
If we can defeat the Mexican cartels and MS 13 then there will be less illegal aliens "fleeing" to our country.
How does a drone distinguish between cartel/ gang and ordinary people?
It might just be better to let people have ownership of their own minds and bodies, rather than seeking to kill other people.
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