US Hits 'Narco' Boats, Forgetting History of 'Intervention'
More than 30 people were killed by US strikes on 'narco' boats in the Pacific, per The Independent, an expansion of a war-on-drugs campaign. The report details the death toll and 'mounting questions about legal justification.' Curiously, it glosses over the US’s storied history of militarizing Latin America, destabilizing regions, and, ironically, often fueling the very drug trade it purports to
fight. The current administration's (and former administration's) enthusiasm for 'military solutions' to social problems abroad is striking, especially when those solutions consistently fail. One might wonder if the US military's budget, rather than actual drug interdiction, is the real 'narco' it’s protecting here, ensuring an endless supply of 'threats' to justify its global presence. How many
proxy wars disguised as 'humanitarian operations' will it take before we question the intervention itself?