back
5 comments
A normal country would conduct a maritime police action to interdict a suspected trafficking boat with an armed force. Instead, this is extrajudicial execution of apparently random people without opportunity to surrender or on the basis of concrete intelligence or evidence. Nearly each of these actions seem like likely war crimes on their faces. Worse, the appearance of the cavalier nature of employment of violence haphazardly and without following traditionally-agreed upon norms and processes of laws of the sea and military rules of engagement look monstrous.
https://archive.ph/xsVpr
honestly, I just keep thinking that at least a few of those men must’ve just been desperately trying to provide for their families. And never had a chance to surrender.
The tone of this article feels like one of gloating and rejoicing that the cocaine traffickers were not deterred. Do we really hate Pete Hegseth so much that we want to see the criminals win?
Yes.

Cocaine is a problem. We should deal with it much, much better than we are.

But it's nowhere near as big a problem as the complete disintegration of our government. We simply cannot allow the government to kill people on a whim.

As bad as drugs are, they are nothing compared to a lawless government. There is one last protection short of violence: an election that puts some kind of check on the existing administration.

It may already be too late for that. The present administration has engaged in numerous attempts to swing the election their way. Only an overwhelming turnout against them has any chance of overcoming that.

So yeah, we really do hate Pete Hegseth that much. It is only by demonstrating that he can't even achieve his own goals by his literally murderous means that we stand any hope of preserving the rule of law.