Where the United States has waged wars of counterinsurgency -- Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan -- we've routinely flooded those countries with arms that were later used against our troops. As far as I know, this might be the first time we went ahead and jump-started that process *ahead* of the war.
Secretly attacking drug cartels...that was pretty much the plot of Tom Clancy's book Clear and Present Danger, except the cartels were in Columbia. It didn't go well.
Where the United States has waged wars of counterinsurgency -- Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan -- we've routinely flooded those countries with arms that were later used against our troops. As far as I know, this might be the first time we went ahead and jump-started that process *ahead* of the war.
The Republican Party used to have a lunatic fringe, now they barely have a sane fringe.
Secretly attacking drug cartels...that was pretty much the plot of Tom Clancy's book Clear and Present Danger, except the cartels were in Columbia. It didn't go well.