Trump Eyes 'Cocaine Facilities,' Not US Drug Cartels?
CNN, citing anonymous sources, reports that Donald Trump is 'eyeing strikes on Venezuelan “cocaine facilities.' The irony, of course, is that the US border crisis—driven in part by drug trafficking—remains a perpetual domestic political football, never a declared target for US military intervention. One might wonder if the 'war on drugs' only applies to nations whose leaders aren't amenable to US
foreign policy, rather than actual drug networks operating unimpeded across American borders. What's more convenient: bombing a socialist government's alleged facilities or tackling the intricate, often US-allied, machinery moving narcotics into American cities? Apparently, the latter doesn't generate the same kind of headlines for a potential presidential campaign.