Col. Douglas McGregor

The Chinese certainly aren't going to send the Chinese Navy to the Caribbean to stand off and fight us.

That's not going to happen.

And I said that.

I said, so, you know, you can't make this argument that this has some great strategic value that justifies this enormous task force.

And you know, it ultimately boiled down to it's time for us to be strong again.

As though bombing hapless people in Venezuela or Colombia or Nicaragua or anywhere in Latin America is testimony to our greatness as a nation.

And then of course the final straw is, well, we've got to destroy the drug problem where it originates.

Well, I've got a big flash of the obvious.

The drug problem originates here inside the United States.

You're not going to get anywhere by bombing Mexico just because Mexico provides most of the fentanyl.

When I say Mexico, we're talking about the cartels.

And Mexico is an organized crime state.

It has been for a while.

They're going to do what they can.

But the Mexican army is much more responsive to the cartels than it is to the president of Mexico.

So, you know, bombing these places is going to stop anything.

It's not going to improve anything.

It may turn out to rally all of Latin America against us.

The evil Yankee who's intervening yet again inside Central and South America.

We're blamed for almost everything that's wrong down there.