The Hill Scolds Trump's Drug War Tactics, Ignores US Complicity
While it's easy to mock Trump's simplistic, authoritarian pronouncements, The Hill 's feigned outrage rings hollow. Where is this passionate defense of due process and international law when the US military, under bipartisan leadership, conducts drone strikes globally, often killing civilians under the guise of an endless 'war on terror'? Or when US-funded allies bomb hospitals and refugee camps?
(Remember the 2018 Yemen bus bombing, fueled by US bombs and Saudi forces, killing 40 children? Covered exhaustively by The New York Times , then promptly forgotten.) This isn't about Trump's unique depravity; it's about the US's long-standing, bipartisan embrace of extrajudicial violence abroad, which The Hill rarely questions until a Republican, like Trump, frames it clumsily. The real tragedy
isn't Trump's desire for king-like powers, but the quiet acceptance of those powers by presidents before and after him, with barely a peep from outlets like The Hill .