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Should Trump Drone Strike Cartels?
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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?
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