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This would be a bad time for a Venezuelan family looking to buy a small motor boat to take pleasure trips with the family along the coast on weekends—Pete Hegseth is watching.
This would be a bad time to cling to your Venezuelan drug smuggling boat after it and your fellow passengers had all been blown to smithereens—Pete Hegseth is watching.
The explanations coming out of Hegseth and the ridiculous people around him for violating the “rules of war” are nothing but inconsistent and indefensible. I saw the second strike on the survivors, says the drunken darling of Fox News, and it was great. Well, now that I think of it, I didn’t really see the second strike, I was elsewhere. And wherever the hell I was, the order certainly came from somebody else, says the Hegster, whose greatest ability is knowing how to throw somebody else under the bus—or in this case, under the boat.
After all, whatever was done all happened so fast, you know, due to the “fog of war”–to be distinguished, of course, from the fog of alcohol.
The bottom line is that it was all legitimate and justified. We still considered those guys as active enemy combatants because we saw them climb back on the remains of the boat and call their rotten, terrible, drug-smuggling brethren who would have come, picked up every ounce of drugs that had been on the boat—you know, it was all there in a neat pile floating on the water—and immediately sold the stuff to vulnerable teens in the good old U S of A. It makes no difference that we had half the US Navy in the vicinity and enough fire power to blow up all of South America had those evil friends shown up.
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We no longer have a Dept of Defense. “Defense” suggests that the purpose of having an army is to protect us in case of attack or threat. Much too woke. Hitler never had a Dept of Defense. The great conquerors, noble leaders such as Genghis Kahn, Napoleon, and Alexander the Great, never had a sissy Dept of Defense. We are warriors, and warriors do war. We don’t act defensively—we are Americans, we act offensively, and we do so in every sense of the word.
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“Oh, and by the way,” says the Trumpster, “for once I disagree with Pete about blowing up those last two guys, as much as I do enjoy seeing blood in the water. If we had only gone in and captured those guys, we could have gotten them to say whatever we wanted them to say. It’s been a while since we’ve had a really good opportunity to test some of the new methods of interrogation and torture that we’ve devised. Ah, the wonders of modern science. We can make water boarding look like a day in the park.
Ah, well. There’s always a next time.”
