A Nation's Duty to Contain Bad Guys

[Cavguy]

If a nation is being used as a safe haven by criminals/insurgents and those criminals/insurgents conduct ops in a second nation, then the original nation is either hosting those criminals/insurgents and it is an act of war, or they lack the ability to enforce their own sovereignty and therefore lack sovereignty.

Either way, other nations shouldn't feel compelled to respect that safe haven nation's sovereignty.

I've never had a moral/principled issue with attacking insurgents/criminals in another nation's territory, provided those insurgents/criminals are damaging the attacking nation.

Of course, there are pragmatic issues involved that need consideration.

Given the above, what is your opinion of this? GEN McCafferty is hardly an anti-US source.

Mexican law enforcement authorities and soldiers face heavily armed drug gangs with high-powered military automatic weapons. Perhaps 90% of these weapons are smuggled across the US border. They are frequently purchased from licensed US gun dealers in Texas, Arizona, and

California. AK-47 assault rifles are literally bought a hundred at a time and illegally brought into Mexico. Mexican authorities routinely seize BOXES of unopened automatic military weapons. The confiscation rates by Mexican law enforcement of hand grenades, RPG’s, and AK-47’s are at the level of wartime battlefield seizures. It is hard to understand the seeming indifference and incompetence of US authorities at state and Federal level to such callous disregard for a national security threat to a neighboring democratic state. We would consider it an act of warfare from a sanctuary state if we were the victim.

The bottom line---the US is ineffective and unresponsive to Mexican concerns about weapons, bulk cash, and precursor chemicals flowing south into Mexico from the United States--- with a blow-torch effect on the security of the Mexican people.

Our second amendment and shady dealers are supplying an insurgency in Mexico. Seems the USA under your definition is not sovreign and is allowing direct support to narco-trafficers. Under the above, Mexico is authorized cross-border raids?