It’s one thing to deploy United States military troops in the aid of the police force in Washington, D.C., however unusual that may be.

It’s another thing for a president who campaigned on the platform of minimizing foreign entanglements to direct the armed forces to target foreign drug cartels — on foreign territory.

Yet that’s what a secret directive signed by President Trump last week would do. It’s wrong from the perspective of the American people, the president’s citizenry, and it would not be welcomed by our allies and adversaries in the Western Hemisphere, this invasion of their sovereign nations. The White House should back off.

As four reporters from The New York Times revealed last, the directive from the president “would … begin using military force against certain Latin Ame

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