It s Time To End Mexican Cartels Reign of Terror | RealClearPolitics
I have long said that when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them. In this respect, the meeting with López Obrador was all too revealing. He made it very clear he is not interested in a true partnership with our nation. He could not have cared less about how Mexican drug cartels have killed more Americans than we lost in the Vietnam War. And he certainly has no objections to the Mexican military and police authorities forcefully confiscating the capital investments and facilities of U.S. companies doing business in Mexico. Simply put, with President López Obrador, there is no rule of law in Mexico and Americans are unwelcome.
Where does this leave us if we truly want to protect American citizens and fulfill the most basic responsibility of a functioning and sovereign government?
Despite the tens of billions of American taxpayer dollars that have flowed to Mexico to help with law enforcement personnel, training, and economic expansion support, Mexico is functionally controlled by the panoply of drug cartels who receive hugs, not bullets from the Mexican president. Taken together with Biden s Open Border policies, López Obrador and Biden are a Mexican drug cartel Dream Team, and the people of BOTH countries are suffering mightily. Clearly, a more direct engagement with the drug cartels, much like how we treated ISIS, is in order if we are to seriously combat the deadly consequences they are inflicting on the American public.
Conducting these targeted operations cannot involve corrupt and infiltrated Mexican authorities. Only an unleashed and empowered American military and intelligence agency can deliver the kind of direct assaults the Mexican drug lords so richly deserve. We should be going after their finances to freeze and seize them wherever possible and repurpose those dollars for American border protection. To bring our point directly to bear on these murderous international criminals, American special forces have proven particularly adept at introducing our enemies to Reaper drones and Hellfire missiles. Make no mistake, these people are our enemies, they are the killers of our neighbors, and they will never stop killing Americans until we end their existence on this planet.
AMLO sees himself as the next Fidel or Chavez. I humbly suggest therefore that we wait until the Mexicans have a chance to vote him out before we unleash hell against our neighbors south of the border. Such hells always seem to blow back against us. At a minimum, we should get a year’s notice before the wars begin, as some of us would want to move a ways north before the bombs start falling.