The "Great Cartel" war

"But to save our young people, to save democracy and peace in Mexico, to keep South America from sliding back into the abyss of Narco crime and punishment, our military is going to have to save the day."

Wait - what? What do you mean the "Great Cartel" war? Don't we have enough right now with the crime war in Washington DC, the immigrant issue nationwide, and trying to help broker a peace deal in Ukraine? And how in the world can we fight a war with the cartels when the President of Mexico told us not to? Or is it not just Mexico? Do we really want to take on the cartels worldwide? The Narco bosses?

Word has it that President Trump has signed an order authorizing the use of military force against ALL the cartels - foreign and domestic. That is a tall order for sure! The drug industry is centered in Mexico but is also in the northern parts of South America. And do the benign neglect we have had towards the cartels in the past, their territory has spread like spider webs throughout the Caribbean Sea and beyond. It would really take our military, teamed up with the DEA and Coast Guard to stem the tide.

The amount of money tied up in the drugs the cartels smuggle into this country is almost immeasurable. So much money, that the cartels have equipped their members with all the best military grade weaponry. This is not some corner gang selling drugs to the young folks - this is a worldwide organization with automatic weapons, drones, airplanes, homemade submarines and many, many "fast boats". And because we have done so little in the past, getting ahead of these guys will take military type planning - and execution.

But we need to be clear eyed about the future. The cartels are not going to take this lying down. They will fight for what they have. The money is just too good to give up. We may take the war to them, but they could also take the war back to us. On our shores. It could get bloody and ugly. What are we fighting for? Not land - we are fighting over a product. A product which kills almost 75,000 Americans every year. 

My thinking on what is to come is very simple - stay out of Mexico. Stay out of the Carribean. Stay out of South America. For how long? I think quite a while. To save Mexico, to fix Mexico, we need to hurt parts of Mexico. Yes, Mexico will probably be ground zero for this war. But to save our young people, to save democracy and peace in Mexico, to keep South America from sliding back into the abyss of Narco crime and punishment, our military is going to have to save the day.

Will the Democrats side with the president when the "Great Cartel" war starts? Probably not. They have a penchant for always siding with the wrong side of history. When will this "war" officially start? It already has.