Posted on 10/19/2021 10:33:25 PM PDT by blueplum
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s defense secretary thought the idea was outrageous.
In spring 2020, Mark Esper, the Defense secretary, was alarmed to learn of an idea under discussion at a top military command and at the Department of Homeland Security to send as many as 250,000 troops — more than half the active U.S. Army, and a sixth of all American forces — to the southern border...It is not clear whether it was officials in Homeland Security or the Pentagon who concluded that a quarter of a million troops would be required....
...Around the same time that officials considered the huge deployment to the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, Trump also pressed his top aides to send forces into Mexico itself to hunt drug cartels, much like U.S. commandos have tracked and killed terrorists in Afghanistan or Pakistan, the officials said.
Trump hesitated only after aides suggested that to most of the world, military raids inside Mexico could look like the United States was committing an act of war...
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My God,
Using the US Military to protect the USA! What an utterly crazy idea! /s
Don’t believe all this sh**.
I hope it is true
bttt
Trump hesitated only after aides suggested that to most of the world, military raids inside Mexico could look like the United States was committing an act of war...
***Uhh, it would look like the US is committed to the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.
These ideas sound just fine to me.
Sending troops would be a bad idea. We would end of spending billions of dollars and at the end of the day the cartels would survive. Plus, Border Patrol agents and U.S citizens living near the border would be targeted by the cartels.
The U.S. will not do what is actually necessary to win a war. We won’t completely destroy the enemy.
Fake News!!
Too bad Trump did not have the balls to order 250,000 troops to the border and fire HIS defense secretary if they refused or undermined his authority.
I’d settle for 150,000.
Trump didn’t come up with the number, or the alligators in a moat idea, but whoever came up with it originally, I think the alligators were pretty popular !
Black Jack Pershing went into Mexico chasing Pancho Villa. We didn’t catch him, but nobody much complained about the effort. . But that was then this is now.
We couldn’t have troops away that long; they would fall behind on their diversity training, and the diversity and inclusion trainers would be very upset.
The writer acts as if Having discussions and processing ideas is a new concept.
But why aren’t Republican governors on the border sending their National Guard??
Why do cucks cuck?
Trump from the beginning never got rid of the disease surrounding him
War with Mexico??
President Trump should have hired out the State of Texas as a mercenary force to give them a@@ kicking #2. We’ve been there, done that. And Mexico is still not getting their cannon. Lol
True statement. Possibly his biggest failure. Comes from him not being a politician and not completely understanding just how bad the snakes in his own tent were. Hell, I knew they were snakes but I didn't know exactly how horrible they really were.
I think we were all absolutely shocked at how infested with Deep State / Obama parasites Washington actually is
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