Cartels as Insurgents: Tactics and Arms

If a foreign organization kills more Americans every year than every war since Vietnam combined, is it terrorism? And if it’s terrorism, why isn’t the US treating it that way?

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00:00:00 Should Trump Drone Strike the Cartels?

00:02:09 The Data Behind America’s Drug Crisis

00:07:00 The Drug Trade Has Grown to an Industrial Scale

00:09:57 Mexicans Want Trump to Attack the Cartels

00:12:39 How the Drug Trade Fuels Homicides in the US

00:14:38 Cartels Are Now Heavily Armed With Chinese Weapons

00:18:14 The Venezuelan Government is One Giant Drug Cartel

00:23:19 Is Mexico Turning into a Failed State?

00:29:12 China is Behind This

00:37:40 The Left Now Defines Itself By Opposing Anything Trump Does

00:42:23 The Libertarian Argument on Drugs

00:47:02 The Conservative Argument on Drugs

00:51:04 The Opium Wars

00:53:43 At What Point Does Social Cohesion Matter?

00:56:13 The Tension Between Liberty and Order

00:59:35 Liberty is the Product of Something Deeper

01:04:24 Oregon’s Experiment With Drug Liberalization

01:13:17 What Can be Done About the Drug Crisis?