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I can’t believe they pulled that. I trust absolutely NOTHING they say. All I saw was the official White House page share the moment of people dying in flames and agony. Murdered at sea with a politically charged tagline to appeal to a bunch of rotten racists. I am so disgusted.
its just like the loophole from southpark so they can shoot animals… shouting “its coming right for us!” before shooting…
the administration its all “national security!” and “drug dealers!”. pepper that crap in everything they do, and they can do anything
Don’t forget about “protecting children” to excuse mass surveillance and censorship initiatives.
Yes the America is made of America
Not a great article, IMO. Some points seem very weak. (Escalation? Escalation by whom?) The focus on international law is hardly relevant to how things are actually done in the world. I think the NYT does a better job of analyzing this incident.
My own thoughts: designating drug cartels as military targets rather than simply criminals seems like it could be reasonable. They’re not less organized or less brutal than terrorist groups that have been designated as military targets in the past. Violence against them has the potential to make the world a better place, if that violence successfully disrupts their operations. With that said, having the President unilaterally designate them as such is executive overreach, and having Trump in particular do it is also likely to be a mistake in practice (or worse, an action done with no concern about being correct) even if it could be justified in principle. The shameless celebration of killing is a separate problem and both the symptom of and the cause of a more widespread moral decay.
