The Cartel War Begins

The cartel war will get a lot more people killed, but it will still fail on its own terms.

The president bragged about murdering 11 people yesterday:

The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since his administration's recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean.

According to the administration, this is just the first of many strikes that U.S. forces will carry out as part of the president’s illegal cartel war. This strike illustrates why using the military to combat drug trafficking is so dangerous and wrong. Involving the military like this is only good for killing and destroying, but the drug trade isn’t a problem that can be resolved through more violence. The cartel war will get a lot more people killed, but it will still fail on its own terms.