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by MichaelCollins 1390 days ago
> That is casus belli, legal grounds for war, by any reasonable understanding of international law.

Perhaps. But anything the US Military could do about it would only make the problem even worse. It being a legal reason for war is irrelevant because it isn't a rational reason for war.
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ifsothen 1389 days ago
I don't know. Commando raids on cartel leadership sound good to me. Assassin drones too. Just start taking these people out. Put the fear of God in them.
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MichaelCollins 1389 days ago
> Just start taking these people out. Put the fear of God in them.

Cartels have been doing this to cartels the entire time. They inflict violence on each other far more brutal than the American military would dare. They've flayed family members of their rivals alive to "put the fear of God in them". More of the same isn't going to solve anything.

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ifsothen 1389 days ago
It's not more of the same. It's the cartels vs. the NSA's intelligence gathering apparatus, the US military's precision assassin drones, etc. Cartels don't have those at their disposal.
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