"War on Mexico": Republicans ramp up calls for military action as they blast Democrats as warmongers

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"War on Mexico": Republicans ramp up calls for military action as they blast Democrats as warmongers
The "isolationist" GOP of 2023 may love to call the Democrats warmongers, but just listen to them on Mexico

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 9:07AM (EDT)


(Salon) Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday that the Democrats are going to drag the country into a full-scale war to "unite the country behind Biden." The Republican said it would "be horrific" and would infuriate the country "but make no mistake, they want war." Donald Trump was so pleased he actually re-posted her comment on his own social media platform Truth Social.

Greene trying to portray herself as some sort of peacenik is possibly even more hilarious than Trump doing it. They both like to position themselves as "anti-war" by calling Joe Biden a warmonger for supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion. They claim to be "America First," or at the very least "non-interventionist," as if they just want to give peace a chance but they don't seem to realize that just doesn't scan as their faux pacifism is belied by their extreme bellicosity. Take for example this declaration from Greene just a few months ago:

Link to tweet

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That kind of talk will sound familiar to anyone who lived through "the war on drugs." There were covert operations in places like Colombia but those were coordinated with the governments in question. What these people are talking about is essentially an invasion of Mexico, which hasn't happened in over one hundred years.

Trump wanted to do it during his first term but was apprised that it would be unwise, to say the least. The New York Times reported that former secretary of defense Mark Esper revealed in his book, "A Sacred Oath," that:

Mr. Trump, who was unhappy about the constant flow of drugs across the southern border, during the summer of 2020. Mr. Trump asked Mr. Esper at least twice if the military could "shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs."

"They don't have control of their own country," Mr. Esper recounts Mr. Trump saying.

When Mr. Esper raised various objections, Mr. Trump said that "we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly," adding that "no one would know it was us."

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https://www.salon.com/2023/09/01/war-on-mexico-ramp-up-calls-for-military-action-as-they-blast-democrats-as-warmongers/

[dutch777]

1. Well, we sort of did this before when we sent the military after Pancho Villa and got away with it.

Sad precedent. Even if Special Forces decapitated many cartel leaders, blew up labs, etc. it wouldn't stop the enterprise. More will rise to take their place and rebuild as other economic opportunity of the same financial scale in Mexico is rare. The more lasting message would be close the border and halt trade. Unfortunately that would be punishing the average Mexican but it might be the only thing to generate the political will among Mexicans, indeed the necessity, to end the corruption that allows the cartels to thrive and then actually stop their operations.

[lees1975]

2. Why is it that when this human trash opens her mouth and garbage spews out, it gets reported?

We have to put up with her because she got elected. But we don't have to acknowledge her idiocy.

[4lbs]

3. "War on Mexico" ? I guess they won't be eating at a taco truck anytime soon.

MTG and Dan Crenshaw look like they are more Taco Bell people anyway.

Fake Mexican food for fake Americans.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Mexicans are brown while Russians are white

It's that simple.

[republianmushroom]

5. Yup

[Harker]

6. Looks like the fool has added a Fulton County emblem to her photo.

Would that it were the real thing.

[Skittles]

7. because they can't say WAR ON BROWN PEOPLE

fuck those racists