“It has become hazardous now given the Mexican drug cartels’ increased military capacity and tactical competence,” Brandan Buck, a research fellow at Cato, wrote.
“Directing American Special Operations Forces against the cartels would put them up against a sizable near-peer competitor in asymmetric warfare, thus putting the US government into a position of little escalatory advantage.
“Such a move would not just force the American military into another quagmire; it would drop them into a morass up to their metaphorical waist.”
Cool, we are invading Mexico.
Any war the USA starts is guaranteed to be a quagmire because the USA will half-ass it like they always do in order to save money, thereby actually costing more in the long run.
The purpose of a system is what it does. We must therefore conclude that the purpose of US "interventions" is to create quagmires and failed states while generating massive profits for the military-industrial complex.
Good point. The "savings" is just costs siphoning off to fill MIC coffers.
Actually, they spend an absurd amount of money on their wars, what you mean is maximize profits for the military contractors.
Well they never have an exit plan because the owners think they can just devalue the dollar and austerity the rest of us for profits because damned the torpedoes the line must go up. Peace means an end to their gravy train.