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Opinion article about why proposed military action against Mexican drug cartels in 2020s might fail. The author cites similar failures with previous actions against Colombian cartels during the 1990s.
Bombing Mexican cartels won't stop fentanyl
Posted from reason.com
Mexico
Drugs
Failure
Edited 11 mo ago
Posted 11 mo ago
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I don't know how we will ever stop this scourge. Too many people want to blot out reality in some manner or form.
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As long as there is a market for illegal drugs in the US there will be someone who will supply them, we need to clean up the US first. Where to start is the golden ticket.
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PO3 Justin Bowen
The ground floor.
Without a successful childhood, it's difficult for a person to go on to lead a healthy, productive lifestyle.
We need to clean up the water infrastructure so that kids aren't being poisoned just by drinking water. We need to clamp down on processed foods to get at least to where the food systems of the least-healthy of the countries with healthier populations are in terms of inclusion of chemicals and highly-refined ingredients in foods. We need to clean up the air and transportation systems so that kids aren't sucking in diesel while on the way to school. We need to add diet education in schools.
It starts in childhood. If we focused as much on preparing children for a successful life as we do on protecting billionaires' fortunes then we'd probably get somewhere.
Without a successful childhood, it's difficult for a person to go on to lead a healthy, productive lifestyle.
We need to clean up the water infrastructure so that kids aren't being poisoned just by drinking water. We need to clamp down on processed foods to get at least to where the food systems of the least-healthy of the countries with healthier populations are in terms of inclusion of chemicals and highly-refined ingredients in foods. We need to clean up the air and transportation systems so that kids aren't sucking in diesel while on the way to school. We need to add diet education in schools.
It starts in childhood. If we focused as much on preparing children for a successful life as we do on protecting billionaires' fortunes then we'd probably get somewhere.
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LTC Eugene Chu
..."Diplomatic relations between the two countries are already suffering. Osorio warns that there is "increasing exasperation and increasing anti-American sentiment from the broader population" in response to the war rhetoric, especially given the history of U.S. military involvement in Latin America. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is strongly opposed to U.S. military action against cartels, calling it "irresponsible" and "an offense to the people of Mexico."
Waltz told Politico "the worst thing we can do is continue to do nothing." But drug prohibition is the root of the problem that Waltz is trying to solve: deaths caused by the unpredictable composition of black market opioids. Literalizing the war on drugs can only make that problem worse."
..."Diplomatic relations between the two countries are already suffering. Osorio warns that there is "increasing exasperation and increasing anti-American sentiment from the broader population" in response to the war rhetoric, especially given the history of U.S. military involvement in Latin America. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is strongly opposed to U.S. military action against cartels, calling it "irresponsible" and "an offense to the people of Mexico."
Waltz told Politico "the worst thing we can do is continue to do nothing." But drug prohibition is the root of the problem that Waltz is trying to solve: deaths caused by the unpredictable composition of black market opioids. Literalizing the war on drugs can only make that problem worse."
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