(Crankers) President Donald Trump’s administration recently blew up a drug boat carrying 11 suspected drug dealers cruising through international waters with product. Trump’s admin used a drone strike to blow up the drug boat and video of it was posted on social media as a warning to future drug dealers trafficking product through the water.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the move and stated that more drastic measures like this would take place, despite pushback from any critics. Rubio said destroying the vessel, instead of intercepting it and arresting people, sends a message to the world that drug running into America won’t be tolerated. “Instead of interdicting it, on the president’s orders, we blew it up — and it’ll happen again,” Rubio said
One such critic was Sen. Rand Paul, who said the following on Newsmax: “It’s hard to have any sympathy for drug dealers trying to import product into our country,” he began, “but at the same time, I guess, you might ask the question, where does it end?”
Paul continued, “Are we the world’s policemen, the international policemen? Are we gonna be blowing people up off the coast all around the world? Really, I’m not sure we have the finances to be the world’s policemen. So on the face of it, sounds good, nobody’s gonna have any lost love for a bunch of drugs going down in the ocean and killing some gang members. But at the same time, really, where does it end, and is it the constitutional duty of our government to be, you know, policing, international drug trade everywhere around the world?”
