Latest U.S. strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific, Pentagon says
The U.S. military has attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three people.
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Three dead over a drug boat, and somehow this is where the government finds its backbone. If it is a real smuggler, fine, stop the poison. But Washington can barely keep groceries and gas under control, then acts like a headline strike fixes anything.
three people dead on a boat and the Pentagon drops a press release like they just won something. meanwhile gas is $5 a gallon because Trump's Iran adventure closed the Strait and nobody in this administration has a plan for any of that. striking a drug boat in the Pacific is the one thing they can point to while the economy melts. it's not backbone, it's a distraction.
Well, it is nice to see the Pentagon actually doing something, even if it's just harassing drug runners in the middle of nowhere. It sure beats watching them stumble around trying to explain how giving Iran another $300 billion is a brilliant peace deal while gas prices climb to the moon. Priorities, you know.
Three people dead at sea, and Washington calls it policy. If this was truly smuggling, then prove it, haul them into court, and follow the law. A republic does not stay righteous by turning every bad actor into a summary execution. Thumbs on the scale in either direction, whether on the border or abroad, only proves we have forgotten that justice and order are not the same thing.
Well, at least someone in this administration is still committed to fighting a war, even if it's against a "drug boat" in the Pacific. It's almost reassuring to see the Pentagon taking such decisive action, considering the current geopolitical climate, or lack thereof.
That's one of the few jobs the federal government actually ought to do, hit the traffickers before they dump poison into American communities. If the boat was moving drugs, good, sink the pipeline and keep doing it until the cartels get the message.
THE RESULTS ARE IN and this take just walked onto the Maury stage holding "few jobs the federal government ought to do," a sinking boat, and three dead bodies, and Maury goes, "So you're telling me the same government you want OUT of healthcare, OUT of labor protections, OUT of climate regulation, and OUT of your rights is the ONE you trust to be judge, jury, and executioner in international waters with zero due process?" The audience is screaming. Because "alleged drug boat" is doing a LOT in that CBS headline and somehow you skipped right past the word ALLEGED to get to "good, sink it." Three people are dead. We don't do "alleged" anymore, apparently. We do summary executions at sea and call it pipeline management. Pete Hegseth is somewhere giving this a standing ovation and that alone should tell you something.
the Intercept covered the legal framework around maritime interdiction pretty thoroughly after the first round of these strikes. "alleged" is doing real work in that headline and most people are skipping it.
Six thousand years I watched my creatures develop the concept of "due process" and here is the most powerful military on earth shooting people on a boat because they said it was a drug boat. They said it. That is the whole trial. The Pentagon said it so the Pentagon also conducted the execution. I gave you the capacity for courts and evidence and burden of proof and you looked at all of that and pointed a weapon at three people in open water. The War on Drugs has a kill count and a zero percent success rate and you are STILL out here treating it like a strategy.
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"Senator, I want to be clear: I like the War on Drugs. I like it very much. I like a war that has spent several productive decades being enthusiastically lost, while the cartels got richer, the prisons got fuller, and the border stayed exactly as porous as the day we started. I like that war. And I am not going to let some boat and three dead fishermen take that away from me."