Do we have a need for boats with drugs in them?
We face a harsh new reality.
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Blowing the boats up signals Maduro to stop sending them.
pknopp
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Evidence?
If we have it is indirectly.
Concerned American
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Same number of people were killed at Brown Univ. in RI as were killed in Syria. Do we now have issues with Brown Univ. too? STFU.
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No, I don't. You and the rest of the people who continue to lie about this don't mean anything to me.
You're like ghosts of Carl Marx past.
The use of dehumanizing language from the left is widespread and easy to discover in any debate, particularly debates about abortion or debates about national defense, where every enemy of the United States is given a human face, and our country is painted as evil in any conflict.
What DOES have to happen is for the cowards on the left to actually file a lawsuit dealing with stopping our national security interests.
When we have a ruling on that from the SCOTUS, then the understanding of what the left is trying to accomplish will be known.
For what? Sink them and the drugs won't harm Americans.
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Coast Guard releases video of cocaine seizure in Pacific, showing shots fired at alleged drug boat
The Coast Guard said it has seized more than 150,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, including a record-breaking bust earlier this month.
www.cbsnews.com
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Trump said he would retaliate.......that's not an issue?
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Only for pearl-clutching cowards.
Concerned American
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The police in RI are retaliating.......is that not an issue? Take it down the road.
A decade ago Obama was president and telling us election had consequences and refused to work with the GOP on healthcare and gave us the unaffordable care actAs recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America's military power should be for.
Defense of the homeland. Deterrence of would-be aggressors. Cooperation with treaty allies and protection of kindred democracies confronting common foes. Humanitarian aid and relief. The security of the global commons: sea lanes, air corridors, undersea cables, digital networks. Upholding the laws of war.
In sum, the ability to prevent war wherever possible and win it whenever necessary — all for the sake of a safer, more open, rules-based world.
The Trump administration brings a starkly different mind-set to the issue. Out with the Department of Defense; back to the Department of War. Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas. In place of standing with Ukraine’s embattled democracy against Russia’s invasion, the administration has adopted a course of moral equivalence between the two sides while seeking profits from the war through arms sales and mineral deals.
Opinion | A Free World Needs a Strong America
Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.www.nytimes.com
Before launching in to the usual personal attacks, dismissive deflections, whataboutisms, and disparagements of the source, I ask a question of those who disagree with the content of the editorial. What, IYO, did the authors get wrong?
I don't want to limit the scope of the discussion to the regime's activities in the Caribbean, but is this not true?
Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas.
So not sure what you are talking about
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No, it's not an issue in R.I.
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LOL, its not an issue in Syria either.
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Trump ramping up the issue in Syria where we have no business being to start with is indeed an issue.
Nope. Kill the f out of the terrorist
It’s sad this happened. Xiden was handed a world were terror was contained…then he happened
He killed our troops?
We’ve been there since 2014
Trump at least cut our presence down massively during his first term, he got attacked by your demafasict for that…then you all elected xiden and he surrendered to terrorist, so here we are again
My guess is the DoD will target some of these terrorist based and bomb them to hell, and you’ll whine
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The people of Syria are the terrorists?
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You are the Democrat supporter. We have covered this many times.
The Taliban are a creation of the Islamic Fundamentalist faction within the Pakistan ISI;
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The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) (Urdu: انٹر سروسز انٹیلی جنس) is the military intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing information from around the world that is deemed relevant to Pakistan's national security. The main objective of the ISI is to integrate the Pakistan Armed Forces during wartime with real-time intelligence and support. The ISI reports to its agency executive and is primarily focused on providing intelligence to the Government of Pakistan and the Pakistan Armed Forces. It is part of the Pakistan Intelligence Community.
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Relatively unknown outside of Pakistan since its inception, the agency gained global recognition and fame in the 1980s when it backed the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War in the former Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Over the course of the conflict, the ISI worked in close coordination with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom to run Operation Cyclone, a program to train and fund the mujahideen in Afghanistan with support from China, Saudi Arabia, and other Muslim nations.
Following the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992, the ISI provided strategic support and intelligence to the Taliban against the Northern Alliance during the Afghan Civil War in the 1990s.The ISI has strong links with jihadist groups, particularly in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Its special warfare unit is the Covert Action Division. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in their first ever open acknowledgement in 2011 in US Court, said that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) sponsors and oversees the insurgency in Kashmir by arming separatist militant groups.
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Inter-Services Intelligence - Wikipedia
So basically, put bluntly, to get rid of the Taliban requires making war on Pakistan and clearing out about half of their ISI.
For a start.
Things get more messy and complicated if and/or when that first goal/objective is achieved.
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