Trump’s Killings at Sea Escalate the US’s Forever Drug War (jacobin.com)
from technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to world@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 05:48
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/57772582

Donald Trump’s lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific are a brutal escalation of the United States’ long-running “war on drugs,” a bipartisan war that has seen the US involved in torture and extrajudicial killing abroad since the 1970s.

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aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Nov 07:52 next collapse

You mean the US lost the war on drugs? Add it to the list of other wars it has lost. There’s no shortage of them

logicbomb@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 08:11 next collapse

“Killings at sea” is a better phrase than some I’ve heard, but I wish they’d emphasize that we are using our military to murder civilians. They are non-military targets.

They were not charged with a crime. They had no chances to defend themselves. They received nothing remotely resembling due process. They were not convicted by a court, nor given the death penalty. We in the US do not execute people for possessing or transporting drugs.

Our military is simply murdering people.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 17 Nov 09:43 next collapse

Our military is simply murdering people.

This has been the case for as long as your military existed, so that goes without saying.

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 17 Nov 13:01 collapse

lol your military

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Nov 13:43 collapse

We in the US do not execute people for possessing or transporting drugs.

I think we do now.

dan1101@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 21:04 collapse

They aren’t going to win any war on drugs either, it’s just murdering people with no accountability.