Getting Away with Murder: Trump has now ordered the killing of at least seventeen people on the high seas—with no accountability
Getting Away with Murder: Trump has now ordered the killing of at least seventeen people on the high seas—with no accountability
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Getting Away with Murder | David Cole
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How exactly is this different from the drone strike campaigns of the last 15 years? Genuinely asking, seems bad but not particularly different at first glance.
They were happening in a war zone. We are not at war with Venezuela. Pretty obvious why this is different.
And no, I'm not defending Obama's bullshit drone strikes. Just be real.
You have not been "at war" since WWII... Or was it Korea? Every one of the conflicts the US has been engaged in started with the executive branch unilaterally deciding on it as is the president's prerogative and while congress ended up funding all that they never declared any war.
Trump is doing a lot of unprecedented stuff, but this is as precedented as it gets. Bombing a nonthreatening Latin-American country might actually be the most Presidential and traditional thing he ever did.
Sorry but that is absolute bullshit, declaring "War on Terror" does not make a whole region of the globe a war zone.
It was bullshit then as it is bullshit now, check your biases.
They used to use faulty reasoning like they were enemy combatants or terrorist to justify this.
It is clear now they are trying to see if they can murder people for whatever they feel like. Right now it is drug dealing, but what is next?
Considering this administrations inability to see out of their ass since their heads are stuffed so far up there, it has people worried about what they will do next.
On the grand scheme of things perhaps you are right. Just par for the course.
Again, how is that new? Obama bombed multiple Doctors Without Borders locations, journalists, and even US citizens.
Exactly.
Obama ordered plenty of murders in the Middle East, including of Americans. These kinds of unilateral presidential actions are neither new nor unprecedented. They are powers that we as a people decided we approved of by electing and reelecting these men, and now they've landed in the lap of the worst person imaginable.