{"id":8146,"date":"2025-12-14T17:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:25:24","slug":"former-president-biden-once-called-for-strikes-against-drug-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8146","title":{"rendered":"Former President Biden Once Called For Strikes Against Drug Cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former President Joe Biden, while serving as a U.S. senator from Delaware, called for an international military response against drug traffickers in a fiery 1989 speech that has resurfaced amid current controversy over the Trump administration\u2019s anti-drug strikes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet\u2019s go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force,\u201d Biden said in a 1989 address, Fox News reported<\/a>. \u201cThere must be no safe haven for these narco terrorists and they must know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden made the remarks while delivering the Democratic Party\u2019s official response to then-President George H.W. Bush\u2019s Sept. 5, 1989, speech outlining his administration\u2019s efforts to combat the crack cocaine epidemic, according to C SPAN footage.<\/p>\n

Bush announced plans to double federal assistance to state and local law enforcement, provide $65 million in emergency aid to nations including Colombia to fight cocaine cartels, and increase federal drug enforcement spending by $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

In response, Biden argued the Bush administration was not going far enough and called for what he described as \u201canother D Day\u201d in the war on drugs.\u201cThe president says he wants to wage a war on drugs, but if that\u2019s true, what we need is another D Day, not another Vietnam, not another limited war fought on the cheap and destined for stalemate and human tragedy,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n

At the time, Biden also described drug trafficking as the top threat to U.S. national security during the height of the cocaine and crack epidemics that gripped American cities in the late 1980s and early 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe speak with great concern about the drug problem in America today, but we fail to appreciate or address it for what it really is, the number one threat to our national security,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt affects the readiness of our army, the productivity of our workers and the achievement of our students and the very health and safety of our families,\u201d he added.Biden warned that the United States was already under attack by drug cartels, comparing the situation to Colombia\u2019s battle with narco terror groups.<\/p>\n

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