[pipeline_peak]

> not forcing the cartels to retaliate.

What do you mean forcing? They are organized crime, this is what they choose to do. The right thing for them to do is turn themselves in.

How do you expect the cartel to subside and eventually dissolve? Policies that encourage them to play nicely?

[JasonADrury]

>What do you mean forcing? They are organized crime, this is what they choose to do. The right thing for them to do is turn themselves in.

Self preservation. Turning themselves in would be antithetical to that. To expect anyone to sacrifice themselves would be absurd.

The only reason the government is only occasionally assassinating individual leaders instead of fighting open war against the cartels is that the cartels are willing and able to impose unacceptable costs in retaliation. It would be suicidal to not retaliate.

>How do you expect the cartel to subside and eventually dissolve? Policies that encourage them to play nicely?

Policies that eliminate their sources of revenue.