Your method would eventually end in the loss of American servicemen. Are you okay with that?
I’ve only watched the first video and the drug bales were visible and recognizable.
I don’t particularly want the US to disclose it’s ways and means just because old farts on the internet want “proof”.
RE: Your method would eventually end in the loss of American servicemen. Are you okay with that?
I’m sorry, but That response is emotionally charged and rhetorically powerful — but it’s also strategically and morally flawed.
The argument implies a false choice: either violate international and moral law or lose American lives.
It’s like saying, the police should just shoot and kill murder suspects because not doing so will eventually and possibly kill police officers.
The question “Are you okay with that?” weaponizes fear to justify preemptive killing — a tactic historically used to erode civil liberties and justify war crimes.
The moral legitimacy of U.S. actions depends on restraint, evidence, and accountability. Sacrificing those principles for tactical expediency undermines everything American servicemen are sworn to defend. This is even more true as we have not formally declared war on Maduro’s regime.
U.S. servicemen are trained to operate within rules of engagement and international law. Suggesting that their safety requires abandoning those rules cheapens their professionalism and sacrifice. Protecting servicemen means equipping them with lawful, powerful, effective and protective tools — not giving them license to act outside the law.
The safety of American servicemen is paramount — but it must be pursued through lawful, strategic, and morally defensible means. Fear cannot be the excuse for abandoning the rule of law. It is true of our Police officers, it should be true in this particular case.