In an op-ed written for The Wall Street Journal on Friday, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr called on President Joe Biden to send in the military to deal with deadly Mexican drug cartels; “These narco-terrorist groups are more like ISIS than like the American mafia,” Barr writes.
“Merely designating the cartels as terrorist groups will do nothing by itself. The real question is whether we are willing to go after them as we would a terrorist group.”
“Optimally, the Mexican government will support and participate in this effort, and it is likely to do so once they understand that the US is committed to do whatever is necessary to cripple the cartels, whether or not the Mexican government participates,” Barr wrote.
From The New York Post:
The former AG noted that more than 106,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021, according to the National Institutes of Health — with nearly two-thirds of that number due to non-methadone synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
That number of fatalities outstrips “the number of Americans killed in action during the bloodiest year of World War II,” Barr wrote, adding that a 2017 study put the total cost of America’s drug epidemic at “more than $1 trillion annually, or 5% of gross domestic product.
“Given the explosion in illicit drug deaths since then, this estimate now seems conservative,” he went on.
Read the Full Op-Ed Over at The Wall Street Journal:
From @WSJopinion: What will it take to defeat the Mexican cartels? First, a far more aggressive American effort inside Mexico than ever before, writes William P. Barr https://t.co/gHRWtE4dnl
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 3, 2023
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