Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 5:07 am
BDKJMU wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:33 am
They don’t believe these boats are carrying drugs…
The question/issue isn't whether these boats are carry drugs, most of them are. The issues are:
1) What if one of them that we blow up isn't carrying drugs? Then we as a nation have just murdered someone. That is a crime. We should be interdicting them, proving they are carrying drugs and proceeding from there not blowing them up based on the suspicion that they're carrying drugs, no matter how strong.
If you'd actually listened to what Rand Paul said in the "no pathway" tweet they you so notoriously misquoted he stated something like this:
If you go off the coast of Miami, the Coast Guard will be stopping boats today and about 25% of the boats that they stop that they’re suspicious of drugs, there won’t be any drugs on board. So 25% of the time the suspicion is wrong and that’s why we don’t just shoot and blow up boats off of Miami but neither should we be blowing them up off the coast of Venezuela.
I don't care if it's 5%, 10%, or 25%. Destroying one boat and killing those on board if they aren't carrying drugs is murder.
2) If the early September survivors were clinging to wreckage and "out of the fight" it was likely a violation of the USMCJ and Geneva Convention to hit them again. It needs to be investigated. But Whiskeyleaks is more worried about how Senator Kelly wore his medals years ago than leading with the dignity and honor befitting an American officer.