Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Focuses on Cartels and ‘Anti-American’ Ideology
The plan aligns with the administration’s efforts to fight what it views as domestic terror threats.
“Our new counterterrorism strategy first prioritizes the neutralization of hemispheric terror threat by incapacitating cartel operations until these groups are incapable of bringing their drugs, their members and their traffic victims into the United States,” said Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism. Alex Brandon/AP
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