h/t Matt Bracken
With all due respect to Matt, he's under-thinking this.
Imagine an invasion where no one was willing to drive the landing craft.
After all, it takes 30 minutes to change a tire.
(People were also grumping at Peter's blog about the durability of tire sidewalls, a conversation I've never heard made about front windows.)
It takes a full week to train a bus driver, and it costs about $2K@.
It takes a full month to find the second one after the first one is no longer an option.
Just saying.
Sometimes, the correct answer is "More cowbell."
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With all due respect to our host, we all be under thinking this. You don't need .22LR, caltrops, busted diesels or dead drivers. All we need to do is stop writing checks. Bust the nuts at the UN, Catholic Charities, WHO, and every other NGO with their hands in the till. We, as in the royal sense, are funding all the aid stations located along the route to get here. Any cursory review of Michael Yon's missives on the matter make that clear.
MORE and MORE cowbell
NGL, it took me a few minutes to figure out what you were talking about. I must be slowing down.
When addressing the hardware doesn't solve the problem then you have to move on to the software...or wetware.
Don't need bullets to deflate a tire. A bootheel to the valve stem works just fine.
Don't forget that they need fueling and people (and facilities) to maintain them. Those technicians are even harder to train than drivers.
Once that goes away, then things grind so a halt pretty quickly.
It's a system. Break any part and it grinds to a halt fairly rapidly.
Or a pair of diagonal cutters to the valve stem.
With all due respect to our host, the problem is all the people who have been 'bought', who's price has been found, in order to get them to participate in this large operation.
The bus and trucking companies, their drivers, the NGOs, the people who printed the maps to hand out, the people who run the way stations and the people who supply same, plus myriad others, are all on the take.
They all know, or suspect at least, this is illegitimate, but money talks, as they say. Easy money with no downside, at least south of the Rio Grande.
Enough filthy lucre to get/do what's asked and shutup.
Until the juice is most certainly NOT worth the squeeze, and the right crowd knows it, there will be willing participants, and people willing to take their place, if someone gets cold feet for 'reasons'.
We aren't playing dirty enough.
How is any of that not exactly what I just said?
Losing a lot of money in tires in southern Mexico is a start. Your answer is a finisher.
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