townhall | Donald Trump is talking about labeling the Mexican drug cartels that
own our failed state neighbor as “terrorist groups,” and this is yet
another step toward what is increasingly looking to be an inevitable
confrontation. They just butchered several American citizens, including kids, which cannot go unanswered. They
murder thousands of Americans a year here with their poison, which
cannot go unanswered. But are we Americans even able to answer a bunch
of pipsqueak thugs anymore? Let’s put aside the question of if we should use our military against Mexico (I discussed it here in 2018, to the consternation of liberals and Fredocon sissies) and look at what might happen if we did escalate.
None of it is good.
It’s
not a matter of the prowess of our warriors. Our warriors, unleashed,
would lay waste to anything we point them at. But the question is,
“Would we ever unleash them? Would we let them do what it takes to
achieve the goal of eliminating the cartels?"
Of course not. We
haven’t decisively won a real war since World War II (except the Gulf
War, unless you accept the arguable premise that it was an early
campaign in a still-continuing Iraq conflict). And there’s a reason we
don’t win. We don’t truly want to, as demonstrated by our
unwillingness to do the hard things required to win. Could you imagine
the Democrats siding with America in a war on Mexican drug cartels? If
you can, you’re higher than Hoover Biden at a strip club on a Saturday
night.
Again, this is not to say whether a war on the Mexican drug cartels is a
good or bad idea. Nor is it to say we do not have the combat power to
do it – we do. It’s just to say that America is culturally and
politically unwilling to do what it takes to win, or to accept the
losses that would come with a military campaign against the drug
cartels.
