US Strikes 'Alleged' Drug Boat, Kills Civilians — Again
The Deutsche Welle piece frames a US Navy encounter as a simple drug interdiction that sadly resulted in two deaths from an “unspecified incident.” We're left to infer the US Navy's presence, the 'alleged' smuggling, and the 'unspecified incident' itself. The US government's history of extrajudicial killings in the name of various 'wars'—be it on terror or drugs—is consistently sanitized by
outlets like DW, focusing on outcomes while sidestepping accountability for the means. The public is rarely informed when these 'alleged' smugglers are actually fishermen, or why military force is the default. One might wonder at what point an 'alleged' crime becomes an immediate death sentence in international waters, especially when the prosecuting, judging, and executing body is the US
military. If the alleged crime was domestic, there'd be trials, lawyers, and due process. In the vast Pacific, two lives are merely collateral damage, another victory footnote in an endless, undefined 'war,' conveniently buried beneath the euphemism of 'unspecified incident'.