US Military in Mexico? Not such an Outside Idea.

A hundred years ago, Pancho Villa started raiding towns on the US-Mexican border. It caused so much havoc that the US sent an expeditionary force of several thousand men under General "Blackjack" Pershing to put an end to it. They never did catch Villa, but it put a cramp in his style.

Back then, Villa was more of a local annoyance than what we have today - a nationwide threat in the onslaught of traffic in drugs, illegals and crime - which affects every American throughout the country. Even worse, Mexico as a sovereign nation is on the precipice of collapse. And it's never good for a country to have an unstable neighbor right next door. What emerges from the power vacuum can never be predicted.

There are many things we should do. First and foremost, stop the drug cartels. Next (or even simultaneously), enact policies that make it profitable for American companies to put their manufacturing in Mexico rather than China. This will give the Mexicans a reason to a) not get involved in the drug trade, and 2) not come to the US illegally looking for work. It's one thing to go to kill the drug cartels, but it'll never stay dead unless the regular Mexican folks have an honest option to make a living.

But to be sure, the stabilization of Mexico and her sovereignty is good security policy for the US.

Now let's see what the White House does. Right.

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