Vivek Ramaswamy campaigns in Iowa, suggests US military could be used to 'annihilate' Mexican drug cartels

This week, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy traveled to Iowa, where he suggested the U.S. military could be used to hold Mexican drug cartels accountable.

Throughout his conversation with voters, Ramaswamy, a health care and tech sector entrepreneur who announced in February that he would seek the Republican presidential nomination, laid out his agenda for a brighter, more prosperous America. Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. Story tips can be sent to kyle.morris@fox.com and on Twitter: @RealKyleMorris.

"I've said that not only will we use the military to secure our own southern border, we will go further," he said. "If we can use our military to take out [Osama] bin Laden or [Ayman] al-Zawahiri or [Qasem] Soleimani or ISIS somewhere else in some other part of the world, then we are ready to use our military to annihilate the Mexican drug cartels south of our own border."