Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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So are we still more upset about Diverse, but qualified, yet presumed unqualified hires, than DUI hires?
(Asking for anyone who cares about US National Security)
Pete Hegseth needs to go for the safety of the United States & the allies that we still have.
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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The US should abolish all "recreational" drug laws and trash the DEA and its state and local equivalents. That would decrease crime globally as profits would greatly drop. And decrease greatly bloated govt power. Bukele's dangerous utilitarianism would not be needed.
Drug crime wasn't even a big part of crime in El Salvador. It was mostly straightforward extortion rackets.
Libertarians greatly overestimate the role of drugs in crime. The tattooed men in those photos WANT to engage in a violent tournament for dominance. If drugs were not available to fight over they would turn to something else, including in the end just violently shaking people down.
Evidence for Salvador drug crime/crime? You evade presenting a standard for acceptable drug crime/crime. Most US federal prisoners are drug criminals. Many parts of many US cities are dangerous because addicts steal for black market prices. Courts are slow because of many drug trials. Security is expensive. Corruption of the justice system. Contempt for law. Enourages more statism.
Based on my conversations with Salvadoreans (I was there in March 2022 actually), forumposter123 is right. It was mostly extortion rackets.
It was shocking to see how much it distorted markets, to the point where large areas of San Salvador didn't have any small shops (the usual Latin American bodeguitas/boliches/almacenes).
What caused such an unusual amount of extortion?
According to insightcrime.org: "The Barrio 18 spread south into Central America and Mexico mainly as a function of a change to US immigration policies in the mid-1990s, which increased the number of criminal charges for which any foreign-born resident could be deported to their country of origin.
The new policy was applied aggressively to gangs in California, where many gang members were not US citizens. The deportations led to a sudden influx of Barrio 18 and other gang members in Central America and Mexico, bringing with it violence and crime.".
Other gangs appear to have the same origin. About why they "chose" extortion as their business, I don't see what other options they had in the 1990s. (insightcrime.org/el-sal…)
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