“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.
Wasn't that basically what Afghanistan was?
I was thinking of the headline regarding militias in Syria but I'm sure it applies to Afghanistan as well
when they get money from the cia they're called "al qaeda" and when they get money from the pentagon they're called "isis"