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Also a moat. With sharks and laser guided weiner dogs. Chainsaw launchers. Haywire grenades to throw in water...

 Jihadin wrote:
Also a moat. With sharks and laser guided weiner dogs. Chainsaw launchers. Haywire grenades to throw in water...

Oooh, what about a wiener dog launcher??? What about wiener dogs armed with chainsaw launchers launched from the wiener dog launcher?! Those could be mounted on the sharks like aircraft carriers!!

We had that thread about arming our southern border and Frazz came up with some ingenious way to protect. Think there were radar guided parinhas to. Couple militia manning the walls with 100mm sniper rifles. Electrified eels.

Why not invade Mexico, make it a part of america, deal with the cartels, so the cia could run the drug trade to finance operations abroad and the police could keep the war on drugs to keep the corporate prisons going.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Why not invade Mexico, make it a part of america, deal with the cartels, so the cia could run the drug trade to finance operations abroad and the police could keep the war on drugs to keep the corporate prisons going.

hmm the US could use another garbage dump or nuclear waste dump, not much difference from the country's current state except there are less buried copies of E.T. in Mexico.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Why not invade Mexico, make it a part of america, deal with the cartels, so the cia could run the drug trade to finance operations abroad and the police could keep the war on drugs to keep the corporate prisons going.

I know you are being sarcastic, but annexing Mexico isn't a bad idea. Ignoring the difficulty in annexing it in the current economic/political climate, it would probably be a long run positive outcome for the people living there.

It would basically have to be a military campaign to eradicate the Cartels though, it would literally be war and it would have to be total war. No kiddie gloves, bomb the everliving cow turds out of each and every Cartel hangout and roll tanks over the rubble. Martial law would have to be in effect for likely at least a few years and Statehood would have to wait a while.

This is of course in a perfect world where we could/would see this through and not chicken out.

Hhmmm thought Mexico was like a gateway or something to the US southern border

 Grey Templar wrote:
I know you are being sarcastic, but annexing Mexico isn't a bad idea. Ignoring the difficulty in annexing it in the current economic/political climate, it would probably be a long run positive outcome for the people living there.

It would basically have to be a military campaign to eradicate the Cartels though, it would literally be war and it would have to be total war. No kiddie gloves, bomb the everliving cow turds out of each and every Cartel hangout and roll tanks over the rubble. Martial law would have to be in effect for likely at least a few years and Statehood would have to wait a while.

This is of course in a perfect world where we could/would see this through and not chicken out.

And without the media bleating about everything