Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.s. Military Killed Them

It was just a murder, literally to make the minister of war feels more manly.

After 20+ years of forever war it only came up as a campaign issue, in how did someone vote for the Iraq war when they were in congress.

And moreover, the punishment for drug dealing is not death.

B) Killing enemy sailors in a war after their ship has sunk (assuming you can justify the false equivalence of drugs with violence with war in your head) is a war crime. The single most common example of a war crime you'll find in textbooks, in fact. Not only international law & the UCMJ, but even statutory US law forbids this.

C) We have seen no evidence that they're smuggling drugs. In fact, the administration was sort of gloating on social media over the fact that they're going to shoot at anything which moves.

D) There is some evidence that some of these were fishing vessels, and some evidence that others were smuggling cheap Venezuelan fuel to the Caribbean islands where formal trade networks make it expensive.

E) The drug trade originating in Venezuela would be cocaine, not the supposed Fentanyl that Trump claims. It's at least as likely to be headed for eventual consumption in Europe as the US.

F) If they'd just done the Obama thing and killed a bunch of people without bragging about how they can kill anyone they want, we wouldn't be obsessing so much. Trump has already declared anyone skeptical of his administration, of America, of Christianity, and of right-wing politics, to be a "terrorist", and thus a valid target for artillery strike under this current justification.

G) The administration is very clearly pushing the regime change war that the GOP has been pushing since Hugo Chavez took over and limited the power of American oil primes. They have declared the Venezuelan President to be "head of the cartel", and are telling us that they're going to invade with ground troops any day now.

So long the suffering of "them" is greater, then the suffering I'm experiencing is justified and acceptable.

Not an American by the way.