Our border is a better place for our military than the Middle EastConservative Review, Apr 5, 2018, Daniel Horowitz
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Trump’s moves to call up the National Guard to help patrol the border and to use defense funding for a border wall have been met with wild-eyed skepticism by the political class. But it’s pure common sense and a more legitimate constitutional and prudential use of our national security assets than our urban renewal projects in Islamic civil war combat zones, which get our soldiers killed for nothing. National security and the purpose of the military begins with homeland security, even if it doesn’t end there. Hasn’t the time come to treat the drug-smuggling and downright human invasion crisis from our border like the national security threat that it is?
Even if we somehow found a solution to “stabilizing†Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan – quite an impossible feat, given the tribal warfare – the primary security threat at stake for our homeland is through immigration. Yet, ironically, it is the endless wars that have made us feel guilty enough to bring in record numbers of immigrants from those countries, thereby undermining the entire premise of involving our military there in the first place. But how come nobody in the political class has expressed interest in stabilizing Mexico? It is right on our border, and much of the land is controlled by the most violent drug cartels in the world. It is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Mexicans, the bulk of the 60,000-plus drug overdose deaths per year in this country, and thus costs our economy, culture, schools, and hospitals hundreds of billions of dollars.
If not for the black-hole politics of immigration, any clear-headed policymaker would see a greater threat from our southern border, inviting military intervention, than anything we’ve ever done in the Middle East – by a factor of 1,000. The Mexican drug cartels are essentially using weapons of mass destruction with the distribution of fentanyl and now carfentanil into this country. Even most of the fentanyl that is shipped from China is distributed through the Mexican drug cartels and gangs that have now been empowered to operate within our country thanks to open borders, sanctuary courts, and fugitive cities.
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