Quote:You know it's not just vacant, unclaimed land, right? A lot of these "caves"--and there are really not a lot of caves near the border, just rock overhangs--are either on private land, Indian land or national park land. Do you really think a rancher is going to wave hi to the drone as it bombs his range? Can you even begin to imagine the fallout from bombing national parks and wildlife refuges? Who's going to make sure that a family of endangered desert animals isn't making a den of it? And do you really want to be the person to go to the elders on the res and tell them that you'd like to bomb their tribal land?

 

Attacking "caves" is dumb. Bombing US soil is dumb. Bombing private land, national parks and tribal land is unbelievably stupid. When politicians stand up and say idiotic things like, "Finish the fence," which is impossible because of terrain, or, "Bomb caves with drones," we look like the biggest bunch of dipwits on the face of the earth. Instead of grand gestures of showmanship that accomplish next to nothing and/or never go anywhere, let's focus on building the digital fence with e-Verify, citizenship checks for anyone in a border state that is legally interacted with and Constitutionally required to identify themselves to law enforcement, and all that other stuff I rattled on about earlier, maybe even in a different thread. Impossible things like finishing the fence and moronic things like bombing caves will certainly win the votes of the rabid far right, but Dr. Carson is a very smart man. He's just floating bull to try and steal some votes away from Cruz and Trump, and he knows it.