Mexico's Problem With Drug Cartel Warrants United States Military Intervention

Thanks for the topic. I'll show that using the U.S. military I'll run a series of counterplans, explain the advantages and why I outweigh. Counterplan One: Legalize drugsAdvantage one: Crime related to the drug trade goes away.This is obvious..if we legalize drugs there will be no drug war to fight.Advantage two: Increase revenueNo longer having to fight the drug war leads to resources being freed up to pay off the debt, or to increase military spending. Advantage three: Increase U.S. HegemonyWhen we no longer need as many soldiers and resources spent on our southern border, allowing for more U.S. power projection which would increase our hegemony world-wide and lessen the chance of Nuclear proliferation by foreign and aggressive powers. Alexis Madrigal elaborates on the devastation brought by nuclear war[1]:"Imagine that the long-simmering conflict between India and Pakistan broke out into a war in which each side deployed 50 nuclear weapons against the other country’s megacities. Karachi, Bombay, and dozens of other South Asian cities catch fire like Hiroshima and Nagasaki did at the end of World War II. Beyond the local human tragedy of such a situation, a new study looking at the atmospheric chemistry of regional nuclear war finds that the hot smoke from burning cities would tear holes in the ozone layer of the Earth. The increased UV radiation resulting from the ozone loss could more than double DNA damage, and increase cancer rates across North America and Eurasia. "Our research supports that there would be worldwide destruction," said Michael Mills, co-author of the study and a research scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "It demonstrates that a small-scale regional conflict is capable of triggering larger ozone losses globally than the ones that were previously predicted for a full-scale nuclear war."" Nuclear war is bad, and U.S. authorities being tied down in Mexico or on the border instead of searching and destroying nuclear materiel leads to an increased chance of nuclear war, and possibly extinction.Counterplan two: Border fenceAdvantage one: Keeps Cartels out of the U.S.Obvious, the fence and guards on the fence prevents crossings and prevent drug cartels being able to sell their drugs. Another advantage would come from keeping out illegals.Counterplan three: Execute all foreign nationals caught with illicit substances in their possessionThis counterplan has been advocated by the most prestigious scholars of drug usage and deterence, such as thett4[2] who elaborates, simply and eloquently: "This would end the drug war in a matter of weeks, because all of the drug dealers would be dead." This could be done by eliminating certain legal aspects such as " overturn the Supreme Court case forcing the courts to recognize constitutional rights to everyone on U.S. sovereign territory and let em have it! Every person found with drugs on their person will be checked to insure they are a citizen. If not, they go straight to the gallows for a humiliating execution"It is simple, effective, and ingenius. Refutations" the presence of the United States military may be the only answer at this point"--> Why the military, why the U.S.? Are we responsible for Mexico now?"The violence that the drug cartel are causing in Mexico is beginning to effect the United States and will only get worse should we not intervene"--> Refer to my counterplans. Starting a war on our continent leading to the deaths of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of innocent people will bring about world-wide condemnation on the United States. --> TURN: An unwarranted invasion leads to decreased U.S. hegemony because of decreased status in the world, thus increasing the likelihood of a Nuclear attack, Terrorism, WWIII, or all of these impacts. --> TURN: Keeping U.S. troops tied down fighting a war in Mexico would lead to decreased U.S. military power because it has less soldiers and resources to spread around. In conclusion Pro gains no solvency, advantages, or positive impacts. Vote Con.1. http://www.wired.com...2. http://www.tumblr.com...