EXCLUSIVE: Ted Cruz Suggests U.S. Military Response to Mexican Cartels

breitbart.com ^ | 12 Jun 2017

[Helicondelta]

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz suggested that the U.S. military should be used against Mexican transnational criminal groups (cartels). The statements were made during a one-on-one interview with the senator at the end of May at the Bayer Museum of Agriculture in Lubbock, Texas.

SEN. TED CRUZ: In the past decade, we have seen the control and reign of terror of the cartels wreak enormous damage to the nation of Mexico. Where ordinary citizens are terrified for their lives. Where crime and kidnapping becomes almost routine and the corruption that goes hand and hand with billions of dollars of illegal narcotic trafficking resources combined with vicious violent transnational criminal cartels has done enormous damage to Mexico and enormous damage to America.

What can we do about it? One of the things I think we should explore very seriously is something along the lines of what we did in Colombia: Plan Colombia. Where President George W. Bush worked with President Uribe to target the cartels and take them out. It was treated less as a law enforcement matter than as a military matter. Where our military went into Colombia and helped destroy the cartels.

[dfwgator]

We’re going to do it eventually.

[proust]

Sounds like a lot of money. How’s that wall coming along?

[FatherofFive]

Their government is corrupt. Top to bottom

[SaveFerris]

And Cruise’s “American Made” opens in September.

Isn’t this the Mena thing? I’m sure it will leave out some tidbits of info.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I was CERTAIN it was Jack Bauer who single-handedly destroyed the Columbian drug cartels! And here you’re saying the USA did it? Well. Ya learn something new, every day. ;)

I like the idea, but let’s pull all of our kids out of Iraq and Afghanistan first. One stupid, ginned-up war at a time, Please.

(We’ve been in the ME since Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Did we win that one, yet?)

[Envisioning]

We should invade and seize their natural resources. Then, build the wall.

[OrangeHoof]

I’m a Cruz backer but I don’t like this idea. This would be like Vietnam right on our doorstep if we intercede militarily. We’d have to invade Mexico to eliminate the problem and then you have a war started with lots of civilian casualties that spills back over into the U.S.

Definitely need a much stronger border fence before doing anything like this.

[Rapscallion]

I have thought so for a long time.

Think Big! Make it a military operation to suppress the drug trade for years to come. Make it a NATO operation worldwide. Intercept and seize all shipments. Arrest all participants and put them on trial. Find all storehouses and seize them.

[vette6387]

“We’re going to do it eventually.”

We should have done it thirty years ago. And as far as asking their government “for permission,” I’d be just for telling them that if they get it our way, they will die too. I don’t want “nation building” in Mexico, but rather “nation cleansing!” It would appear, based on the situations in pretty much all of the countries in Central and South America, run as they are by Spaniards and Portuguese, that they are never going to be stable, but at least they need to be drug cartel-free.

[Mouton]

Who will be the current Black Jack Pershing?

IMO, Trump should tell them to clean up their act or we will do it for them.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Taking out the drug cartels could be part of the training programs for our SO operatives. They could get in and out and the Mexican government would be clueless.

[wastedyears]

I completely agree. Show no quarter, and be brutal against them. Exterminate them.

[moehoward]

How long till our guys start getting shot at by their “GOOD” guys ?

[Oldexpat]

What is happening with the story of the border patrolman who was kidnapped and tortured near Deming?

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks so much for your support to this point... I personally apprecaite it...
FReepers, it's time to wrap up this FReep-a-thon.  Lets do it...

President Donald J. Trump and the Free Republic of the United States of America

Ramirez political cartoon: Hungry Media LARGE VERSION 06/10/2017: LINK  LINK to regular sized versions of his political cartoons (archive).

Please join the monthlies, an automated and the best way to help support Free Republic.  If you opt not to join the automated monthly support program, please consider joining the One One Done project.  LINK

FReepers, 93.24% of the Second Quarter FReep-a-thon goal has been met.  Click above and pencil in your donation now.  Please folks, lets end this FReepathon.  Thank you!
...this is a general all-purpose message, and should not be seen as targeting any individual I am responding to...

Just $672.00 to 94.00%

[McGruff]

Send in some Cruz missiles.

[kjam22]

Their government is corrupt. Top to bottom

Yeah..... so is ours I think.

[doug from upland]

No American troops on the ground in Mexico. Technical assistance and drones.

[combat_boots]

Word is 1500 people / month are being killed in Mexico.