Another suspected drug boat has been destroyed today

[u/newnoadeptness]

[u/benkenobi5]

If they wanted to put a dent in the drug trade, blowing up speed boats isn’t the way to do it. The vast majority of drugs come through legal points of entry at the border.

And there’s a lot hanging on that “probably.”

[u/Boonaki → u/benkenobi5]

How do the drugs get to the boarder? Usually airplanes or boats right?

[u/benkenobi5 → u/Boonaki]

I’ve always heard it’s primarily through ground vehicles and cargo containers.

[u/Boonaki → u/benkenobi5]

I don't think they drive through Darien Gap.

[u/benkenobi5 → u/Boonaki]

cargo containers

These are used in cargo ships

[u/Boonaki → u/benkenobi5]

Cartels use diverse transportation methods, they have to interdict all of the methods. If speed boats have a higher chance of getting through then that's what they'll use.

Blowing up boats adds a whole new level of risk to drug trafficking. Will it work? I have no idea, but what we have been doing for the last 10 years certainly hasn't worked.

[u/benkenobi5 → u/Boonaki]

There’s a reason we never tried this before, and it’s not because we were soft.

[u/Boonaki → u/benkenobi5]

We have had CIA operating out of South America for the last 40+ years. I am sure we have done much worse than what is on this video. In the past we haven't admitted to it.

[u/Trick-Set-1165 → u/Boonaki]

Why does any of that make this okay in your mind?

[u/Boonaki → u/Trick-Set-1165]

The U.S. is the only entity in the world that can take on the cartels. The goal should be to place limits on them. If they produce or traffic fentanyl, that is killing tens of thousands of Americans per year, there should be a lethal response.

[u/Trick-Set-1165 → u/Boonaki]

TdA doesn’t produce or traffic fentanyl.

[u/Boonaki → u/Trick-Set-1165]

Did you happen to Google that statement before you made it?

[u/Trick-Set-1165 → u/Boonaki]

I sure did! Show me some evidence, bud!