Posted on 10/29/2018 10:06:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
But we have attacked civilians before. And we've warned them.
This is an invasion, with more surely to come if we don't respond appropriately. It's full of MS-13 and other gangsters including, in all likelihood, ISIS, al-Qaeda and Iranian agents. I do think it qualifies as an invasion, from Wiki:
An invasion is a military offensive in which large parts of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of either conquering; liberating or re-establishing control or authority over a territory; forcing the partition of a country; altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government; or a combination thereof. An invasion can be the cause of a war, be a part of a larger strategy to end a war, or it can constitute an entire war in itself. Due to the large scale of the operations associated with invasions, they are usually strategic in planning and execution.Fits almost to a T.
We cannot harm women and children. We must protect them, without keeping them.
With the strong, military aged men, we must do everything legal and moral to keep them out of our country.è
It seems that our military could rather quickly unwind a few miles of barbed wire coils from trucks at strategic locations where the ‘caravan’ is anticipated. It would be a cheap & rapidly deployed wall as needed although admittedly not very architecturally attractive. Back this up with tear gas or PSYOPs if a breach is attempted. We could have have some US troops on the Mexican side of the border providing a sort of tent city with bologna sandwich etc to show how humane the US is. Yes we can deploy short distances across the border as a national defense prerogative ... We did that for Pancho Villa, Cochise, right?
The problem needs to be solved in Mexico, by Mexico, well before the caravan reaches our border. Allowing an organized force of 10,000 or more aliens, to cross Mexican territory for the purpose of invading our country is an act of war for which Mexico is accountable. If Mexico refuses to do this, we ought to move the shortest distance needed into Mexico to protect our border. This might include disruption of the caravan’s transportation, or its financial and logistical support, either at the site or at its origin. In the end, it might include corralling the caravan into camps on Mexican territory. The caravan would then be transported by ship out of Tampico or Vera Cruz back to Salvador or Honduras. This will bring us to the edge of war with Mexico, and cause huge upheavals in Mexican politics for generations, but it is better for both of us to sort this out now. Nothing will be gained or made better by waiting.
POTUS needs to recall his ambassador from Mexico and close the US Embassy there until the “caravan” is delt with.
Active Denial System
They were offered sanctuary in Mexico and turned it down.
All bets are off.
Terrible idea to blow up a bridge with bus loads of civilians on them. If the only peaceful way to stop them is to destroy bridges and roads, so be it. But let it be non-lethal.
Better look at Europe!
Since this is WAR; so it is NOT mass murder, it is merely the destruction of an ENEMY DIVISION attacking the United States.
Might actually work to blow up some bridges ahead of the migrants’ advance. Dare the Mexican Wehrmacht to counterattack, supported by the mighty Mexican Luftwaffe.
In 1967 the Israelis blew up the Allenby Bridge to prevent its use by Syria. Then for months the newsreels showed Arab civilians crawling over collapsed girders to get into the occupied West Bank.
Interdiction of avenues of approach may be the only option since Mexico is doing nothing to slow down the `caravan’.
Anyone who crosses our border illegally should be shot. What’s the problem?
President Trump has the authority to close the border. Let no traffic of any type through, until the Mexican government deals with the invader caravan.
I would love to see them have to deal with hordes of invaders instead of us having to for a change.
How does it feel you guys?
You don’t like it so much, do you?
Optics, man, optics. Trump is no Putin and he does have to worry about elections.
The coyotes will stick the women & children in front (kinda like the pallies in Gaza) and will be in the crowd prodding them forward with guns jammed into people’s backs.
Might take widespread use of nonlethal crowd control. Pop CS forty yards in front of the mob if the wind is right. They’ll stampede to get away from it and then there will be casualties.
No easy solution. Watch “One Minute to Zero” with Robert Mitchum where an American colonel has to call artillery fire down on a column of Korean refugees which is infiltrated with communists.
yes that is what I would, deploy a short distance across the Mexican border and construct camps. The Mexicans and the liberals would have exploding heads as would a bunch of liberal judges but I don’t think they could do anything about it. Are the Mexicans going to go to war? I don’t think so. The migrants are stopped outside the USA so the Democrat judges are powerless. There is water and bologna sandwiches and tents if you want to spend months or years there but the only door is south.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.