Should the United States Carry Out a Military 'Style' Intervention in Mexico in Order to "Take Out" the Mexican Drug Cartels?
Should the United States Carry Out a Military 'Style' Intervention in Mexico in Order to "Take Out" the Mexican Drug Cartels? “We (denizens of the United States or U.S.) should send the [U.S.] military to take out the cartels.” This rather confidently stated proposition permeated the airwaves of a gathering I was attending on a recent Sunday afternoon. The person in question then followed up by saying that they ‘felt sorry for the [Mexican] people’, and so ‘we’ ought to act accordingly. If I understand correctly, then the conclusion draws on a humanitarian concern. That is to say, the concern proposes “The United States stands to achieve a humanitarian consequence, if it carries out a military 'style' intervention in Mexico in order to "take out" the Mexican drug cartels.” Sans a myriad of relevant objections from historical arguments (which we shall not enter into here), there are a few assumptions made by this premise—we ought to car