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The old policy was to just pull the boats over and search them. I wonder if there are any practical law enforcement benefits with the new “kill first, ask ques
by hedora 1y ago
The old policy was to just pull the boats over and search them.
I wonder if there are any practical law enforcement benefits with the new “kill first, ask questions later” policy.
The article doesn’t say much about this. Like were US Coast Guard getting injured in raids, or overwhelmed by the time it took to search the boats? How many suspected boats were innocent? How many that were turned loose showed up full of coke later?
- _mlbt 1y ago[flagged]
- t-writescode 1y agoIt just kills the mules and various low-level people or lackeys. Could also kill some of the family-people who are under the local feudal lord (drug cartel leadership)
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- tim333 1y agoTrump and Rubio don't seem particularly inclined to only go for the low level lackeys. "The president is very clear that he’s going to use the full power of America, the whole might of the United States, to take on and eradicate these drug cartels" and "TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder..." etc.
- esseph 1y agoNot really. None of the people in that boat were meaningful. If they were, they wouldn't have been on the boat. This is like going outside and swatting a fly. Congrats, there are a lot more out there and how much money got spent on that strike? May not scale well.
- _mlbt 1y ago[flagged]
- mikeyouse 1y agoYou can't think of a good reason to be against an extrajudicial drone strike that killed 11 people?
- _mlbt 1y ago[flagged]
- mikeyouse 1y ago'Narcoterrorists' who had neither a trial nor a sentence and posed absolutely no imminent threat to anyone in the US. Why would we expect our military to actually follow International or even US laws?
- esseph 1y agoImagine if we had done this to a Chinese boat in international waters.
- foogazi 1y ago
- hedora 1y agoWait, only 5 members of the cartel? Where does it say that? I guess they murdered 6 innocent people (the headline says killed 11), all because they were too lazy to stop the boat?
- _mlbt 1y agoIt was 11, I made a mistake. I edited my comment.
- myvoiceismypass 1y agoDo you think the masterminds of this alleged operation were on said boat?
- rayiner 1y agoDealing with sophisticated non-state actors on the high seas have always been somewhere between “law enforcement” and “war.” In the US it goes back to Jefferson dealing with the Barbary Pirates.
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- OhMeadhbh 1y agoI'm pretty sure this was a distraction from the Epstein files published by congress today. All things considered, we got off cheaply. $3 for a couple of Harpoon(ish) missiles? The alternative was to invade France of bomb Poland.
- theyknowitsxmas 1y ago11 lives vs. thousands of new zombies and ODs, worth it.
- piva00 1y agoThe logistics of the illegal drugs market is very resilient, sinking one boat will do nothing to stop new zombies and ODs, lol... It's so resilient that even with all the disruptions caused by the War On Drugs drug prices are mostly stable over decades, some are even deflationary.
- theyknowitsxmas 1y agoNo problem, I will get the same emotional replies when Trump does it again.
- defrost 1y agoThere's little emotion to the replies pointing out your obvious false dichotomy that erroneously appeals to conservative 'emotions'.
- theyknowitsxmas 1y agoDrug pushers are the lowest of the low. They don't deserve a breath.
- piva00 1y agoYet it's not spending some millions USD from your tax money to explode a few boats that will make any difference. I feel there are quite a few types lower than drug pushers, rapists being one of those. You probably disagree.
- theyknowitsxmas 1y agoIt would cost a million to treat a single fent walker on the street.
- peachmaker 1y ago[flagged]