The footage is brutal. The reaction is worse. As narco-terrorists are blown out of the Caribbean, the American Left is melting down on cue — screaming “war crimes” and flirting with impeaching Pete Hegseth. But where was this moral fury during Obama’s 500 drone strikes? Where was it when Americans landed on his kill lis… Continues…
The same Democrats who shrugged at Obama’s secret “Disposition Matrix” now howl about “war crimes” because narco-terrorists, ferrying poison toward U.S. shores, were hit a second time as they tried to reboard their wrecked boat. They weren’t shipwrecked innocents; they were regrouping combatants returning to their platform, and under long-standing law of armed conflict, that vessel remained a lawful military target until it was sunk.
That’s the core distinction former Trump Navy lawyer Tim Parlatore laid out: intent and mission, not media spin, define legality. Just as at Midway, where a burning, crippled Japanese carrier was lawfully torpedoed until it slipped under the waves, the objective in Operation Southern Spear was to neutralize a weapon — a drug boat designed to kill Americans by the thousands. The real scandal isn’t the strike. It’s a political class more outraged by dead traffickers than dead citizens.