US Military: 'Alleged' Drug Boats Worth More Dead Than Identifiable
CBS News, citing Fox News' Pete Hegseth, proudly announces the US military's latest Pacific 'drug boat' strikes, killing six 'narco-terrorists.' Crucially, the report notes U.S. officials didn’t release identities or offer proof of drug smuggling or threat. This mirrors the post-9/11 'war on terror' expansion into Latin America, where 'drug trafficking' became the convenient pretext for military
presence and interventions, as detailed in reports from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Latin America Working Group. One might wonder: how many nameless bodies are required to secure vague 'national interests' in international waters? These 'alleged' drug runners, whose guilt is presumed by virtue of being in a U.S. military sightline, conveniently disappear without anyone asking for
inconvenient things like due process or accountability. It’s almost as if the 'drug war' is a perpetual motion machine for military contractors and a blank check for executive action, rather than an effort to stop actual narcotics. Ignorance, it seems, is a feature, not a bug.