By Paul Weiser
As Americans, we hate to see the military involved in domestic affairs. That was, after all, a major reason for the American Revolution, and differentiates us from Latin America. Yet in dire circumstances, militarization is inescapable.
Take, for example, militarization of state and local police (there are, by Amendment X, no legitimate federal police). This is an entirely bad thing: black- clad, helmeted ninjas breaking down doors, throwing bombs and sniping from shadows are impermissible and must be abolished. Marine reconnaissance teams crawling around south Texas and shooting locals were merely an extreme case: police deal with people individually, as citizens with rights and duties, not as targets to be processed by rules of engagement.
Yet, liberals to the contrary, the armed forces do have a legitimate function on American soil beyond training and disaster response: repelling invasion. We're not being invaded by Canada or Russia (the other nations bordering America) but Mexico is certainly invading with a horde of millions whipped on by corrupt government, plus elite shock units of smugglers and Mexican Army commandos (whether or not they've been bought private by the criminal element... essentially indistinguishable from the Mexican regime anyway).
Here militarization is mandatory. The Border Patrol, like police, must treat each invader with full respect for his potential rights - impossible during an invasion. What we have, on the other side of the border heading north, are bodies and things to be processed with rules of engagement.
The role of the military, then, is to defend the border - to kill people and destroy things vital to the criminal/Mexican regime using air strikes, artillery, and short-term armed incursions, which will also deter and repel the unarmed mass of invaders even though they are, humanely, not targeted. The invasive Mexican regime is the enemy: hurt them until they stop.
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