On using military force against Mexican cartels
Nearly every Republican presidential candidate is now calling for direct military action against Mexican-based drug traffickers.
For a long time, Americans have seen drugs as a law-enforcement, not a military, problem. And even with military problems such as terrorism, America’s general preference is to enlist the help of local governments, militias, or political factions to do the fighting. This has been our tack with the Mexican government for years now.
