Dear Editor;
I’m hoping you can clear something up for me, my children and 347 million Americans: “Are we at war?”
I mean, non-video of American forces “double tapping” speedboats, survivors clinging to wreckage in shark-infested waters, and cool video of special forces roping down onto Venezuelan oil tankers has me wondering what Venezuelans have done to me.
Are we really going to war over oil? Again?
Asking for a friend…
Sincerely,
Jeremy Horne/San Ramon
It’s for Milo, Milo Minderbinder.
Nice literary reference…
This summation is spot on.
Yes, we are at war. The government of Venezuela encourages narcotics trafficking and trades oil with other hostile nations. Meanwhile, inside the country, elections are really stolen, opposition voices are jailed and the 2025 Nobel Peace Price winner had to sneak out of the country. And, today, the leader of Venezuela was chatting with Putin, so Trump can invoke the Monroe Doctrine and settle this as war.
Firestone 11R
Trump himself has been seen chatting with Putin multiple times.
Jeremy. hese are not innocent fishermen trying to eke out a living ;they’re not pleasure boaters: they’re hardened drug running criminals! These drugs kill over 100,000 Americans a year! Who do you care about more? Curious where you’re getting your information, and disappointed that news 24680 would publish such a letter.
Even assuming you’re right, the remedy for smuggling is not extrajudicial killing by air strike.
And your disappointment in this site providing a forum for discussion is noted.
I’ve always found it odd that people crying the loudest about freedom of speech are usually the ones trying hardest to suppress it.
There have been a number of journalists who have investigated the “fisherman” that usually are on these boats. Almost all of them come from impoverished villages and what little they make running drugs is still many times the crumbs they could eke out actually fishing. They are certainly not hardened criminals. Should they be arrested and receive due process? Yes. Should they be murdered? No one with any morals would say yes to that in my mind.
The other thing I’ll say is that the sad truth is the fishermen on these boats are expendable. They are desperate and there are literally thousands of them the cartels can exploit. You will NEVER slow the run of drugs destroying the boats because their boats are cheap and so are their lives. Kill one and there will be another to take his place. It’s a horrible situation.
When considering the 2 prior posts, my mind wanders to Duane in Annie Hall and Alvy Singer’s response:
“Right. Well, I have to – I have to go now, Duane, because I, I’m due back on the planet Earth.”
Assembling a huge military presence in the Caribbean to kill Venezuelans in small boats was not a campaign pledge. It is one more distraction.
The absurdity of our present predicament cannot be overstated. We taxpayers are funding this orange-faced cruelty domestically and abroad where there is no coherent plan other than consolidating control for the powerful.
Follow the oil (money).
For anyone watching – this administration has lied to the nation for years. Those of us who caught on to the hypocrisy early on figured the light would go off for “the base” eventually – but if some of the posts here are to be believed there are still holdouts. Amazing.
The video of our military dropping kinetic weapons on defenseless survivors (evil or innocent) will not be released due to the uproar such transparency would create. The American people are not going to stand for this forever.
I would suggest that the above posters puts full effort into ignoring issues.
West Hollywood 91R
“You could suggest that, but you would be wrong.”
Yeh…. no. Ain’t gonna happen. Still American.
that’s a hollow thought
I didn’t vote for any of this so I’m off the hook. But even the Nazis stopped to help sailors in the water after sinking their ships. Only in a few cases did they machine gun survivors. Turning helpless fishermen-smugglers-gangbangers into chum so Hegsdeth can prance around talking about lethality is sickening.
The South Park take on Noem and Hegseth fighting over “content” really hits the mark. This is a show. A horror show. A freak show.
EASILY the most incompetent and corrupt administration in history.
Yes. Oil for his billionaire friends and regime change so America can fail at that again. I didn’t vote for this. Those of you who did I hope you’re getting your money’s worth.
In the Catch 22 version of world events, Milo made a deal with the enemy to bomb one of his own airfields in exchange for offloading the cotton he couldn’t sell. It was of necessity for M&M Enterprises.
What did we get for bombing the East Wing?