The Nassau Directives

The grotesque violence of narco-terrorism has filled vast tracts of Mexico and the rest of Latin America with a brand of lawless, failed-state death and destruction unmatched even by ISIS, the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. The violence has devastated American cities for decades and has spread across the border.

The threat to the United States -- whose hunger for narcotics has driven the violence -- becomes desperate. And from this has grown a desperate, final solution to the narcotics demand issue on...