Our troops should be on the Mexican side of the border to stop migrants from entering with the support of the Mexican Govt IMHO.
Group of Armed Mexican Soldiers Disarm, Detain US Soldiers on Texas Side of Border
Why they allowed themselves to be disarmed is beyond me. You know it made the cartels nervous they were on the other side of the wall & that is the only reason that this happened.
I think
if and it is one of these odd and tricky ifs too. If we're still following international law & Geneva Convention, the soldiers had no choice but to allow themselves disarmed, at least for the
show of it or
good faith. Acting as an American soldier you still need to comply to host country/nation laws when you visit. Consider the International uproar, "Armed American Soldiers Invade Mexico!" So, I am
speculating whoever the
immediate team/s leader on site was, they chose to allow being disarmed in order to avoid such optics as it is called.
Our troops should be on the Mexican side of the border
They were right after Obama took office. There was a green light for a battalion of SF Rangers to go in and tackle the cartel issue/s in the best feasible manner the
on site command structure decided upon. There was a fall back to an infiltration and decoy strategy used in 'Nam I believe it was called Operation Phoenix, until the civilian casualties began outweighing the cartel ones. The Rangers played
dress up as cartel men A and shoot up cartel me B, run off, don cartel C's garb, shoot up cartel A, wash, rinse and repeat until either your team kills 'em all or they implode upon one another killing themselves out.
I know this from having open clear text coded talk with a few buddies that were either Rangers from Army side or Rangers from Navy & SEAL side. I was told two days before Obama hit office, "an op in Mexico is on a table". As I said once the cartel started using civilians as bullet proofing, the ops stopped, soldiers withdrew only offering covering support fire & direly accurate at that. They got staged for 3 month until someone redeployed them, scrubbed any idea of trying to route Mexico of all cartels. Some offered views that possibly the CIA folk got to the cartels, wised them up and used the last ditch strategy of dead civilians to get the op stopped. That was never accused openly, never denied openly, never confirmed openly either, ... just suspected. CIA does use drug money after all. That's been known, as common knowledge, since late 1970's to early 1980's.
We also
do not have operatives in other places in the world where folks would least expect. That however well it's .. "look, it's Jack Webb!" *turns, looks and runs off*
Sorry, it was Mr. Webb. He had coffee. I have no coffee. See the problem? *grins* So, yeah you might want to understand there is a metric ton of poop going on all the time but it is not always brought out in the open. I mean it would be silly at best for me to say to you here in public, "gee, I think I'll go rob the Ripley branch of the Credit Union", then go do so and wonder why a S.W.A.T team shows up at my apartment door. Silly I tell you, silly like you actually robbing the Ripley Kroger's instead and getting away with it because you called the SWAT team on me. I have no intention what so ever of robbing any entity this morning. I might hassle Mr. Webb's spirit to get some coffee, though.
To offer another example, my wife's grandfather one day out of the blue asks me, "Barn, ya growing any wacky xxxx down in the creek bottom you not told me about?" I looked him up and down, took a deep sigh, shook my head and replied. "Well, if I've not yet told you about it, ... why would expect me to tell you about it now?"
He laughed. "Ah, so you do."
I chuckled and said back, "you planted it if you find it."
He went serious. "Well that other fella he tried and got his butt dusted for his troubles."
I shook my head at that as well. "And I'm supposed to be as dumb as him, put it right here under your nose, if I do it?"
He grinned and winked. He also threatened to shoot me as we walked through the bottom and he carried a loaded weapon behind me. My answer to that put him off his game too, I never missed a stride. "Better only take you one shot but I don't figure you're a man to shoot somebody in the back." Still kept on walking even hearing the hammer cocked.
I don't get scared too easily, possibly a detriment, though that'll be something I don't change.
Speaking on change. Check this out. Then, consider having robot bosses.