"Fury and might" vs drug cartels?

Senator Linday Gragam has called for the U.S. to use its "fury and might" against Mexican drug cartels. [Source] Earlier this year, we marked (not celebrated) the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invation, so I think that's a particularly bad idea.

In 1962, author Richard Quirk compared the Bay of Pigs debacle to the 1914 occupaton of Veracruz, Mexico.

"As we view with dismay the consequences of the recent United States-sponsored invasion of Cuba ... we may profit from the realization that our failures today spring in part from the same attitudes displayed in 1914. There is still today the insistence upon the universal beneficence of the American brand of equality and individualism and on the superiority of American enterprise and technology. There also persists the urge to force these upon 'backward peoples' whether they want them or not ... "

"If the problems of Latin America are to be solved, they must be solved in their own way and at their own pace. We may offer encouragement, friendship, understanding, and (when asked) counsel, but never tutelage, never superiority, never condescension." [Source]