Yeah, I've been thinking about the military option quite a bit lately.  It's one thing if AMLO invites us in, but if he doesn't, the political ramifications are pretty interesting.  As a San Diego native, I'm all for Baja becoming a US territory, but Mexico is going to have a huge power vacuum if we did take out the cartels in a meaningful way.  I'm not sure what the answer to that is. Also, it's pretty cool that we can be justifiably confident in our military's ability to win such a scenario.