ISIS in Juarez Mexico

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13. No Reason Why You Should

No reason why you should have.

No offense, meant, but if you're a progressive, you want to believe in the idea of justice, fairness, and freedom. Most of the world operates on a much older, less-egalitarian model--the one that asks questions like "What's in it for me?", "How do I benefit?" and "What have you done for me lately?"

Certainly the wing-nutz aren't going to think about the narco-cartels and why they wouldn't choose to co-operate with ISIS. The know-nothing loudmouths Faux Noise Cable Propaganda certainly aren't likely to ponder the likely actions of a powerful, ruthless, bloody-handed organization that would see its profitability and business interests threatened by ISIS border-area bomb or terrorist attacks turned from hypothetical to real. Nor are they likely to think that the cartels might have a planning horizon longer and broader than many American corporations, one that might decided that smuggling ISIS operatives into the US might be profitable in the short run, but causes the US authorities to clamp down even tighter on the illegal flow of people and illegal goods across the US--Mexican border.

In fact, many wing-nutz seem to have this incredible Evil-Barney-the-dinosaur worldview that the US' opponents will be magically drawn to each other and make alliances just because they oppose the US. Centrists and older-school Republicans would ask (Or would have asked if the latter weren't extinct) why should they? Aside from money-laundering and moving money around the planet, there is no real mid-term or long-term benefit to the Mexican narco-cartels to co-operating with ISIS--and plenty of reasons for them to oppose the expansion of ISIS operations into the western hemisphere.