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The Michael Vary Show is on the air. President Trump has really focused on the cartels and international narco-terrorism. We've been talking

about the Venezuelan state, which is a narco state.

But, you know, I found it troubling for years that we were involved in a forever war for 20 years in Afghanistan.

And one of the reasons is, well, they sent heroin here.

They traffic drugs.

And, of course, we saw Americans dying at a pace that was so

disturbing. And it was supposedly one of the reasons to prevent these illicit drugs from entering

our streets and killing our people. And President Trump has taken on the cartel, and my argument has always been, if you're

concerned about drugs in America's streets, it's the cartels.

But you know, I read an interview with a CIA officer several years ago, and he said,

let me tell you the difference between the cartels and everything else.

If you speak ill of Trump, if you speak ill of Putin, if you speak ill

of Zelensky or the Chinese or North Korea, then you just don't go to their country and you'll be

fine. If you speak ill of the cartels, they're on your street in America. They have so

infiltrated America. They are the most dangerous threat to America.

There is far more violence by the cartels in Mexico than there is the Houthis in

South Yemen or any group of insurgents in Iraq or the Taliban or ISIS or El Shabab or

anything else. And yet nobody's wanted to take them on until now.

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