Batya Ungar-Sargon, who has previously complained that Trump was unfairly denied the Nobel Peace Prize, is trying to rerun the Iraq War playbook by labeling narcotics a kind of weapon of mass destruction. "To Democrats and their sympathetic media, you're not allowed to stop chemical weapons from killing your children," she declared recently. "You're supposed to politely ask them not to come. And if they do, you're supposed to politely put them on trial, with a taxpayer-funded lawyer, of course."
If you remove politely, which anyone who's seen Breaking Bad or Narcos knows is not how the Drug Enforcement Agency operates, Ungar-Sargon's account of America's antidrug policy is accurate. The way it traditionally works is that we tell foreign drug dealers not to come, and, yes, if they do, we try them in court. The practice is less dramatic than using missiles to destroy boats that might have drugs, but it has the advantages of being legal and less likely to incinerate innocent fishermen...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/trump-boat-strikes-war-venezuela/685199/
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