Every day or so for the last several weeks, U.S. citizens have been treated with videos of a large speed boat that is suddenly stopped dead in its tracks by a large explosion in Venezuela waters.
AFN reported previously on the way the Trump administration has acted against Venezuela drug traffickers. According to Fox News, some Democrats, including Arizona's Ruben Gallego, say it's murder. However, Senator Lindsey Graham corrects the record.
“To say that we're engaging in murder is just such an outrage. The president of the United States, as commander-in-chief, has the authority to do these strikes,” states Grayham.
Graham also point out that no one had a problem with this when George H.W. Bush invaded Panama to take out its de facto ruler, Manuel Noriega, who was wanted by the U.S. for drug trafficking.
Trump has escalated the “war on drugs” from a slogan into a hot war.
Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis is a retired U.S. army officer and an expert on national security. He says that this is the right thing to do.
“They're bringing fentanyl that are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans on an annual basis. So, there seems to be some justification in the minds of the Trump administration, and I tend to agree with them that we have to stop that flow,” says Maginnis.
Maginnis states that fentanyl, heroin, and other drugs are pose and imminent threat to Americans.
“I do believe that national security is undermined when we allow other nations to continue to profit from our own demise because of overdoses of drugs. We ought to take care of that,” states Maginnis.
He says that the orders to shoot the boats goes through all the right channels in the Department of War.
“Now, they're going to coordinate all of that to make sure that our I's are dotted and our T's are crossed legally,” says Maginnis.
