Attacking Survivors: Strikes on boats bring controversy, discussion

For the last week or two, we have been subjected to endless stories about a second strike against drug purveyors treading water next to the wreckage of their bombed out speedboat. Democrat leaders have been highly offended by this supposed action against people floating helplessly in the water.

This action was supposedly the result of our Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s order to kill everybody aboard the boat. There is, however, a problem.

Hegseth may never have given those orders. He says he didn’t. Others in the room say he didn’t. The news account quotes an “anonymous source” saying he did. Anonymous sources can’t be questioned about their statements. One must ask the question as to why the Secretary of War would give such an order.

Speedboats are small. Bombs have the potential to do massive damage. “Kill everybody” would seem to be a purely superfluous statement.

Why the overkill?

Democrats are shouting “war crime.”

They are once again siding with malefactors and against society in general. The position of the War Department, however, is that there is no war. They are taking action against terrorists. Presidents of both parties have a record of blowing up terrorists who escape an initial attack.

There is, of course, also the question of whether there has ever been any attack on survivors of the bombing. It was brought out in the meeting held by the War Department concerning the event that there weren’t two separate attacks on the boat. There were four. It doesn’t take three follow-up attacks to kill a couple of guys treading water.

It may, however, take four attacks to actually sink a wooden boat floating in the water. If the boat isn’t sunk, then the drugs on it are subject to being recovered by cartel members and used to kill Americans. It was, therefore, necessary to continue attacking the wreckage of the drug boat until it sank beneath the waves.

That boat contained enough narcotics to kill hundreds of thousands of American teenagers. It would have been disastrous for any of those drugs to be retrieved and shipped to the United States. It was, therefore, the duty of the U.S. military to insure that the boat sank and that the only users were sharks.

It should be pointed out that President Donald Trump made the statement during his election campaign that people supplying drugs to Americans should face the death penalty. Nobody had a problem with that statement when he made it.

He was not, of course, speaking about addicts selling drugs to pay for their own fix. He was speaking about cartel members bringing those drugs into the United States to hook the unwary. Trump was talking about exactly the same situation which occurred on the high seas and produced the bombing.

I am truly amazed at the compassion of Democrat leaders. It’s so generous and at the same time, so limited. Democrats are wringing their hands over mistreatment of murderers, but they seem to lack compassion when it comes to the averageAmerican.

A hundred thousand young people died last year because they experimented with drugs. Democrats are adamant that their suppliers must be protected but don’t seem all that concerned about the massive number of deaths they caused.

What did they do to combat drug sales during the four years of the Biden Administration? How many young people’s lives did they save?

Almost none?

Shouldn’t that be a “war crime”?