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Yes. Send in US special ops to bust them up. US special ops could wipe out the cartels in a weekend.

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How do you think Colombia got rid of Pablo Escobar? 

The problems in Mexico run deeper than drugs.  If all drugs were legalized tomorrow, or in some other way disappeared as a source of massive profits, then the cartels would just move on and co-opt some more legitimate form of business.

Heck, the cartels did it with LIMES of all things, just a couple of years ago.

The Italian mafia moved into legitimate business to protect its interests, the Lebanese mafia has been doing it in various places in the USA for years, and the cartels/Mexican mafia are involved in plenty of legitimate businesses on both sides of the border as well.

I didn't say it would be easy or cheap, but I do believe if we committed all of the resources we're currently expending on the war on drugs or building futile walls and such, on building up the Mexican infrastructure, it would be mutually beneficial, almost immediately.

Heck, the cartels did it with LIMES of all things, just a couple of years ago.

Ohh, wait.  Pre-Corona....this is where it all started!  

Ehhh, the entitlement programs people bitch about are part of the discretionary budget, too.  The ones everyone wants to keep are what you're referring to here. 
And thanks for changing it to GDP, which has nothing to do with what I said.

No, they are not.  Social Security is a prime example.  Its expenditures are based on how many eligible recipients there are and cannot be cut without changing the law.
I didn't change your point about the military budget to GDP, I compared it to historical expenditures using a consistent metric--percentage of GDP.  I could have used percentage of the federal budget and it would have made a chart that supported my point even more strongly.  You provided no comparison to anything or any context whatsoever.  You just threw out your opinion that it was bloated and indefensible and left it at that.
You probably can't see it, but your response here is exactly why utee gave you a sarcastic "Yes, Afro, you are always right and never wrong" sort of response earlier.  You can't ever acknowledge--or at least I have never seen you acknowledge--that any comment you have made might be less than perfectly clear, less than complete, based on opinion rather than fact, lacking context, bigoted, or snarky.  When, in fact, most posters (including me) make one or more of those mistakes reasonably often.  But you don't admit that you ever do.  So utee's snarky comment to you was nothing more or less than throwing back at you the self-opinion you present.

Ohh, wait.  Pre-Corona....this is where it all started! 

Put the lime in the coconut. 


I'd still like to know how the F you can stick a lime into a coconut.

This got weird. 

Today I got pizza from a food truck that I really like. I’m getting local take out about every other day, though I am considering going back to back for a breakfast burrito tomorrow.

I also am definitely messing up my county‘s numbers about distance traveled because I keep going for long walks by a river near my house.