S2 #11
Not sure how to advance it from my impression to indisputable fact, but it seems to me Republicans place politics first, and the good governance of the People after, if at all.
Nikki Haley doubles down on promise to send special ops to 'eliminate' drug cartels across US-Mexico border
Joseph Wulfsohn / Sun, August 27, 2023 at 1:17 PM EDT
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley repeated her support for sending armed forces across the U.S.-Mexico border to target drug cartels.
"When it comes to the cartels, we should treat them like the terrorists that they are," Haley told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "I would send special operations in there and eliminate them just like we eliminated ISIS and make sure that they know there's no place for them."
"If Mexico won't deal with it, I'll make sure I deal with it," she added.
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley told Fox News Digital she would send special ops to "eliminate" drug cartels beyond the border and "treat them like the terrorists they are."
news.yahoo.com
Ambassador Haley:
Talkin' tough may be dandy for appealing to dim-witted jingoistic voters. But as you should know madam ambassador following through on this proposal would be a disaster.
The U.S. has been waging and losing its War on Drugs for generations. "Special Ops" will not "eliminate drug cartels". You think a U.S. Drug War incursion into Mexico would be any more successful than the U.S. Vietnam War incursion into Laos & Cambodia?
So the "President Haley" formula: if we're going to lose this Drug War, lose BIG !!?
The way to eliminate the illegal recreational drug commerce across the U.S. Southern border is not with human corpses strewn across the Mexican countryside. It's with the stroke of the pen.
"The pen is mightier than the sword" Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1839
Drug War is the martial usurpation of the Creator endowed, Constitutionally enumerated, unalienable right of Liberty.
We are not going to "win" Drug War with carnage.
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.
- sadly -
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." Hegel
The stroke of a pen madam ambassador. That's all it takes to both reduce the U.S. recreational drug problem to pre-Drug War levels, and reduce the U.S. incarcerated population by ~20%.
Graph showing the 353000
people in state
prisons, local
jails,
federal prisons, youth
prisons, and military
prisons for
drug offenses.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2023_drugs.html
Regardless of whatever you imagine your source of inspiration to be Ambassador Haley, you're not following the inspiring standard of the U.S. Founders.
Instead you're seduced by the destructive allure that drives men like Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Shame on you madam ambassador. For if this promise is sincere, you are a traitor to your nation and People.
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." Thomas Jefferson
Yet the harm of recreational drug use is so negligible the Drug Warriors don't even bother to inform and persuade. Drug Warriors remain committed to detect and punish.
It's not working.