Trump calls cartels terrorists. Is that enough to go to war? - Consider This from NPR
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Nearly a quarter century after the September 11th attacks, the Trump administration is using the language of terrorism to target a new enemy: Latin American drug cartels.
The president says we’re in armed conflict with drug cartels.
We talk to a Bush-era lawyer who says the powers of war are too extraordinary to use against crime.
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