Trump War Dept's 39th Attack: 3 Dead in Anti-Drug Smuggling Op in Caribbean Sea

I've been in favor of the Trump administration's practice of intercepting drug-smuggling boats, detonating them and their cargo, and introducing their crews to new quarters in Davey Jones' Locker. Blowing these people up makes everyone in the United States safer, and on Saturday, we learned that drug smuggling boat number 39 has been intercepted and deleted.

A U.S. military strike killed three people and blew up a boat in the Caribbean Sea on Friday, the U.S. Southern Command said, raising the death toll in the Trump administration’s five-month-old campaign against suspected drug smugglers at sea to 133.
The attack was the first known strike in the Caribbean Sea since early November and the 39th disclosed by the U.S. government in the campaign, according to a tracker maintained by The New York Times.

Good. Images of other boats, images taken in daylight with details amply clear, clearly show large, suspicious, bundled cargoes aboard these boats pre-detonation. Those are cargoes we don't want reaching the United States; cargoes of fentanyl, cocaine, and other nefarious substances.

As for the smugglers themselves, on their heads (literally) be it. These are not innocent fishermen; trust me, I've done a fair amount of fishing at sea, albeit in colder climes, and one doesn't troll for fish at full throttle.

The announcement on Friday was accompanied by an 11-second video clip that appeared to show a missile striking the middle of the boat as it traversed open waters, and destroying it.
The command said, citing unspecified intelligence, that the boat had been following “known drug-trafficking routes in the Caribbean” and that it was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.

You can view that satisfying video clip here; it is sadly non-embeddable.

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Of course, this report, coming as it does from The New York Times, just can't resist a little pearl-clutching on behalf of the smugglers:

Whatever its activities may have been, a broad array of legal specialists on the use of lethal force have said that the U.S. strikes are illegal, extrajudicial killings — because the military cannot deliberately target civilians who do not pose an imminent threat of violence, even if they are suspected of engaging in criminal acts.

These people are arguably narco-terrorists. They are feeding a system that has been routinely brutalizing the population of many South and Central American countries for decades. They are funneling deadly substances into the United States, and in so doing, arguably waging irregular chemical warfare against our country. And, we note, irregulars, people taking offensive action against a nation-state while not in recognizable uniform, are subject to immediate termination without trial. That's been the practice for hundreds of years. That's the practice with these drug-smuggling boats now. And all I have to say about that is, "keep it up." These are bad people, people who richly deserve to be converted into food for the scavenging fish and crustaceans of the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The more of their cargoes we can likewise send to the bottom, the better.

And, once more, the Trump administration and the War Department are proving that there is no problem that cannot be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.

This seems appropriate:

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