Irrelevant. Otherwise we should go over there and fix your health care issues for you since you are doing such a bad job of it.
But of course, this is about show of force, not about helping anybody. If you want my opinion you’ll do a lot more damage to the cartels by curtailing demand, a better health care system could only help.
What do you think of the current collaboration with the US to combat drug trafficking in Mexico? Do you think it’s helping?
Are you aware that our current success with drug trafficking includes both help from the US and implementing policies decided by the US?
Your bully is just pandering to his ignorant base yet again; a free wall will keep the Mexicans out, banning some Muslims will keep the terrorists out, keep poor people from getting health care and the army will just kill all the bad guys around the world.
Ridiculous.
Trump regards international treaties and trade deals as just another form of business contract, which you simply abandon when your payment is due.
The trouble with “renegotiating” trade deals (i.e. abrogating them and negotiating new ones with more favourable terms) is that there is no incentive for any other country to negotiate. Who signs a trade deal with a rogue state that has a stated policy that its promises are worthless?
I’m curious, do you think the cartel problem is under control? Do you think there’s a chance that it’s likely to be fixed using the methods that have been used to date?
Irrelevant
I disagree. The cartel problem in Mexico has the potential to be a huge problem for America, and if current methods to fix it aren’t working, then I think it’s entirely appropriate for the American government to be concerned with it. Of course that doesn’t necessarily justify military force, but it’s not irrelevant to this discussion.
I don’t expect to see Trudeau replaced anytime soon. There are what, three years before the next federal election? Barring some kind of epic fuckup he’ll go into it with a large advantage.
The Cons are worse in many ways, especially on social policy, but also more honest about where they really stand. A dangerous combination. Kevin O’Leary gives me shivers, but I think he’ll soon learn that “Mr. Wonderful” is an ironic nickname. Leitch… ugh. And the right-wingers have the nerve to slam the left for “playing identity politics.”
As for the NDP… who the hell runs from the right with plans to govern from the left?? This is a party that needs to copy at least the first page of the Liberal playbook, if not the second: appeal to the bleeding heart in us on the campaign trail. Trying to woo fiscal conservatives is never going to work for them, because nobody believes them except their own dyed-in-the-wool lefty base, who get turned off and stay home or get wooed by Liberal pie-in-the-sky. Their strategists in the last campaign blew it so badly, the mind boggles.
The US provides the demand for the drugs, the money to buy them, and the weapons to arm the cartels. It’s the Americans who have been screwing their country over with the war on drugs, not the other way around.
