David Davis
I chanced upon this photo courtesy of Fred Bloggs who has been researching physics questions weapons. As a sort of putative libertarian Foreign Secretary, if that is not tautological, I sometimes wonder why nations with not as much to contribute to the liberalism-Jihad as some others, need scary-looking troops of chaps with facepaint, carrying inappropriate weaponry. Don’t get me wrong about Mexico: I know it is an “important energy exporter”, and I had in 1994 a 16-bit-ISA Cirrus-Logic graphics card, made in Mexico, with One Megabyte of 16nS V-RAM, which did perform extremely well in a 386-DX40 ISA machine, for some years, and which was sold on to some of my wife’s relations along with the machine.
“Special Forces” are for liberal Classical polities to be able to introduce liberalism, in regions where the prevailing pre-capitalist War-Lord has failed to come forward to be shown how things are. These prancing-up-and-downies are just, well, an expression of GramscoFabiaNazism:-
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Mexico has faced vaguely leftwing insurgence in the Southern Tabasco Province, also, due to warped US drug policies, narco gangs have set themselves up in such a powerful position that they actually threaten to take over from the normal civil authorities. As such, having some special forces in Mexico is probably justifiable, but i take your broader point.
In that case, it probably needs about nineteen slightly shifty guys in t-shirts with firsts in Greats, who can fix Landrovers in the rain in the night while under fire, can use all sorts of weaponry at short notice and who can speak Spanish, Serbo-Croatian and whatever the local dialect is in Tabasco. Bit like the SAS really.
But the guys in the above photo just look too much llike “ActionMan” for my taste.