US Finds 'War Crimes' Questionable, Only When Venezuela Does Them
CBS News, in a sudden fit of legal curiosity, dissects the Trump administration's 2020 boat strikes on alleged drug runners in Venezuelan waters, even quoting Senator Mike Lee on the war crimes question. The headline itself begs the question, "Are they legal?" This newfound concern for international law is touching, if not a tad selective. One might wonder where this rigorous legal analysis was
when the US invaded Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989, or indeed, when the CIA conducted countless covert operations across Central and South America for decades, often supporting coups and paramilitary forces. Of course, CBS News frames this as a unique Trump-era dilemma, conveniently scrubbing the US playbook of similar, if not far more egregious, interventions. The consistent thread tying these
interventions together is rarely about 'legality' for the US, so much as it's about 'expediency.' How many "war crimes allegations" ever truly stuck when the US launched them? This renewed focus smells less like legal principle and more like partisan posturing, designed to question one administration's actions without challenging the systemic immunity the US grants itself.