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Podcast: Consider This from NPR
Episode: Trump calls cartels terrorists. Is that enough to go to war?
Description: Nearly a quarter century after the September 11th attacks, the Trump administration is using the language of terrorism to target a new enemy: Latin American drug cartels.The president says we’re in armed conflict with drug cartels.We talk to a Bush-era lawyer who says the powers of war are too extraordinary to use against crime.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at [email protected]. This episode was produced by Connor Donevan. It was edited by Cou...