Should the U.S. get involved with Mexico's Organized Crime problems?

[KING MEAT]

we need to test our new weapons anyway

[IceTrayDaGang]

Legalize all drugs, tax and regulate the industry.

Build a secure border, control immigration.

Its a win / win - more money and a much safer country.

will never happen... if they legalize all drugs.. the pusher will just find another way to make their money..

[spytactics]

I say declare all out war on the cartels. Treat them as public enemy #1 since the garbage drugs that they peddle end up in the US...

[billeau2]

Correct - people wanting and taking drugs is not the real issue that society faces - the real issue is the abhorrent, ultra violence that the drug cartels use to control the industry. Weird how some folk are convinced that drugs are total evil, but the people supplying them are some kind of cultural anti-hero's (Escobar, El Chapo etc). I'm perfectly fine with people who choose to use drugs, its the violence and misery that comes hand in hand with the supply that I don't need.

Excellent point. Traditionally if you look at any country with lenient drug laws what destroys them is people flocking from areas with Draconian drug policies. Its one of those things about the Northern European mentality regarding social policy: I hate when they want to decide when people are "Old" and should 'hurry up and die', I love when they are pragmatic about drug use.

[billeau2]

will never happen... if they legalize all drugs.. the pusher will just find another way to make their money..

Read about the French connection. Heroine is a timeless drug, it has unlimited natural supply (Opium Poppies grow like weeds) and is priced based on risk associated with refinement and distribution. These other fly by night drugs come and go. They can be controlled a lot because they can be spotted a mile away. My point is control the drugs that are "blue chip"...Alcohol, nicotine, Weed, ******* and Heroine, and the rest will be relatively easy to control. Best way to control is to legalize and sin tax.

[billeau2]

Lol at you thinking the US isn't already involved

It has been said by many whistle blowers, time and time again, that there are three ways, and one process by which the powers that control the system operate:

Running drugs, children, and weapons.

Taking that cash and laundering it.

This happens from the very top of the pyrmid no doubt...BUT what most fail to realize, and this is regarding "involvement," it also comes from the very bottom of the grunge.

Years ago, My wife and I broke down on I-10 before Baton Rouge, in an area known as 'whiskey bay.' The Tow guy told us we were in great danger and naturally I thought he meant because there was no shoulder to the road. He then shows me a larg calibre weapon he had, and his truck is full of bullet markings. He points out a shot up ranger station as we exit the highway.

I was informed that the drug runners come through the area en masse and shoot it out with the feds nightly. They are running drugs up to the Clinton area of Little Rock. Little Rock where S&L associations were created to clean the drug money and put it in shelters. Nobody had any idea that these shoot outs were happening and that the drug guys often held the advantage. Tow truck guy said people hanging around get picked off... And the ranger station looked like Swiss Cheese.

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[Curtis Harper]

If ''involved'' means nuking it, sure. Why not.....

[Boxfan83]

If ''involved'' means nuking it, sure. Why not.....

Mexican people are good people and Mexico has many beautiful/resourceful land. IDK if you are trying to be funny but Mexicos corruption needs to be nuked, not the country in itself.

[Little Mac 91]

It's profitable enough to keep people joining to keep bribing and keep buying more firepower… i mean it's not like gangsters haven't been dying already throughout all these years you're not introducing anything changing. Either people stop consuming or drugs become legal there's no other way to plug the source that causes all the problems. Besides those troops can't stay forever so whatever improvement you feel that you made, even if you did, there is no way to sustain it.