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2023-03-12 Caribbean-Latin America

[amgreatness] The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should, in a just world, refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans for Haitian drug smugglers,

Haitians? That’s new...

as the Dallas Morning News reported, hardly ameliorates the awful situation or lessens our imperative to recalibrate attention away from faraway proxy wars of dubious national interest, and toward the very monsters in our own backyard who run the Western hemisphere’s worst human trafficking rings and flood the U.S. interior with the most lethal drugs known to man.
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Posted by 746 2023-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

#1 The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens

Sorry, I tried, but flag waving hyperbole for these two won't stick.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-12 09:43|| 2023-03-12 09:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Strangely, no one is discussing sending the US Army into Chicago.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-12 09:45|| 2023-03-12 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Destroy the Mexican (or any country's) drug cartels? What do you want, another bank run due to loss of liquidity?

I wonder if Wells Fargo has that line item annotated on that tax form about income from illegal activities.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-12 11:12|| 2023-03-12 11:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes. Remember when the "war on drugs" people said the solution was to go after the demand side?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-12 11:36|| 2023-03-12 11:36|| Front Page Top

#5 B is correct, it is a fantasy to think that we can "destroy the Cartels" until we eliminate the appetite for drugs in the US...and that ain't happening. That said the fight must be taken to those that are directing and prospering from real damage that we suffer from this criminal enterprise (a transnational criminal enterprise in fancy DoD speak). Fentanyl in the current quantity/quality-lethality pushed into our neighborhoods is a weapon used against us by nation states with intent to paralyze and destabilize us. They have to be pleased with their current BDA of effects realized against us and the resultant ROI - we are actually paying them for the privilege...

Having been frustrated beyond my human ability to tolerate stupidness during the last lawfare excursion in Afghanistan and the stan-hoods...I would like to make the following recommendations before kicking off any type of real fight against the "Cartels." (likely an intended effect from the deep threat is to bog us down in a tactical fight on the southern border...don't do it). Only a strategic fight should be considered.

-A thorough mission analysis first please.
-Target those conducting asymmetric warfare against us, the politicians they control (Mexico and the US), the money that feeds them and their ops, and the Cartel leaders.
-Make sure that during the mission analysis all legal authorities are in place along with a strong AUMF to prosecute this fight...if these are not done up front, don't even start...cuz we won't be able to finish properly.
-The "powers that be" will want us to fight a tactical war in the hoods in Mexico, which will be really bad...they are well armed (likely have many of the weapons now appearing on the battlefields in the Ukraine), well-trained, and have the best intel on us that money can buy.
-Note: the US cartel leaders are running their ops from our prisons where most reside, strangely protected, and very well funded.

If we make this a strategic fight with the correct authorities, the "Cartel" will likely make an economic decision and back off.

Posted by Tennessee 2023-03-12 11:39|| 2023-03-12 11:39|| Front Page Top

#6 The "cure rate" for heroin addiction is 1%.

Think about it...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-12 11:50|| 2023-03-12 11:50|| Front Page Top

#7 "cure rate"

And that's my problem how?

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-12 11:52|| 2023-03-12 11:52|| Front Page Top

#8 DooDahMan the IRS does require a thief declare ill gotten gains on tax returns. The IRS promises to not prosecute or turn them over to local police.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-12 12:23|| 2023-03-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I beat it Murcek, you just have to want too.

Posted by Chris 2023-03-12 12:38|| 2023-03-12 12:38|| Front Page Top

#10 you just have to want to(o) sic

Yes. Every therapist, counselor and psychiatrist says it's up to the patient.

It's the truth.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-12 13:18|| 2023-03-12 13:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Those making a profit off of the weakness of others are parasites. Declare the cartels are terrorists because they are.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-12 14:53|| 2023-03-12 14:53|| Front Page Top

#12 I watched first foster daughter quit heroin cold turkey. It did not look like fun, but she didn’t want to be self-destructive anymore.

until we eliminate the appetite for drugs in the US

We can’t even eliminate it here at Rantburg.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-12 22:43|| 2023-03-12 22:43|| Front Page Top

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