Trump’s Marine Adventure: From 'War on Drugs' to 'War on Terror' (Still War)
The article notes Trump allies compared these explosive boat strikes to Obama's drone program. What Al Jazeera conveniently sidesteps is the consistent, bipartisan expansion of executive war powers since 9/11, morphing every national interest into a global battlefield. From Reagan's 'War on Drugs' (which militarized police and destabilized Latin America) to Bush's 'War on Terror,' the language
adapts, but the result remains—the US military operates with decreasing accountability globally, often against non-state actors 'alleged' to be threats. We might ask: how many 'wars' does the US need before we question if 'peace' is the real enemy of the military-industrial complex? Remember when 'nation-building' became 'counter-terrorism' and then 'enduring freedom'? It's a revolving door of
euphemisms for indefinite global intervention and the tragic collateral damage that inevitably follows.