“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.
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.