Is Trump really guilty of a War Crime?

Like Jack Nicholson, he'd prefer you just simply thank him and go about your business.

By Greg Rabidoux

For decades in the so-called "War on Drugs," the US followed a simple protocol. Identify vessels as drug carrying boats. Give them proper warning. Then, interdict the vessel and its crew. Confiscate the drugs, detain and interrogate the crew. Send them back to their nation of origin. Sort of like "whack a mole" without the whack part. Pundits called this approach "a high seas chess match" and "a high stakes game of stop and seize."

Well, the game part is clearly over. The US drug interdiction under President Trump now means business. Deadly business. Last week, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio made clear, the US military following direct orders from its Commander-in-Chief President Trump, did not warn an incoming speedboat headed for the US and loaded with drugs and crew. It did not attempt to stop, inspect, detain, interrogate, or send back.

It blew the boat up. Davy Jones locker style. Whatever remains of crew and cargo now lie at the bottom of the sea.

Venezuelan dictator and known narco-terrorist supporter, Nicholas Maduro, is not happy. And Democrats are not happy. Predictably, they are outraged over what they see as a pattern under this Administration to ignore the "rule of law" in order to "unfairly" go after a "simple man from Maryland" (Kilmar Abrego Garcia) and now, as one anti-Trump social media influencer claimed, "it (blowing up the drug boat and crew) is a war crime and Trump, a war criminal." Vice-President JD Vance responded on "X", posting, "I don't give a s**t what you call it."

Putting aside for the moment the relative lack of shrill outrage over Russia's Putin (an absolute war criminal) and Hamas (a terrorist organization guilty of war crimes), many on the Left find themselves once again embracing the role of protecting gangbangers, rapists, domestic abusers, sex traffickers, pedophiles, and now, narco-terrorists. They scream about the sacred rule of law yet often find it impossible to muster a whisper over the deaths of their fellow Americans from the lethal poison which drug dealers try mightily every single day to bring into our nation and distribute. Over 400,000 died just within the last 4 years alone under Biden who seemed to either be asleep at the wheel or fearful to take action.

So, while the Left is outraged over the deportation of illegal immigrants who have committed heinous crimes, scream "Free DC" as crimes rates there plummet and homicides hit zero, and want to ensure Tren de Aragua" narco-terrorists get to have their day in court," President Trump, much like Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men" (1992) would rather you just thank him and let him do his job.

For the Left, the real question may not be whether they can handle the truth. The better question, as Nicholson's Col. Jessup asks Cruise's Lt. Kaffee, may be (with a bit of an update and apologies to Aaron Sorkin) the following-

Col. Jessup: Democrats, we live in a dangerous world with walls and borders, and those have to be guarded with men with guns. Who's gonna do that? You?

While tragic, the death of those Venezuelan narco-terrorist narco-terrorists saved

American lives. And my existence (as President) while incomprehensible and

grotesque to you all on the Left, saves American lives, including you, and your sons

and daughters. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to those

who rise and sleep under the blanket of the very freedom which my military provides

and then questions and is outraged by the manner we provide it. I would rather you

simply thank me and go on your way."

Either way, those who are outraged by Trump's methods aren't going away. But those 11 Venezuelan Narco-Terrorists bound for the shores of the USA with their poison sure aren't coming back anytime soon. Can the Left handle that truth?

Greg Rabidoux is an award-winning filmmaker, author, and screenplay writer. He also loved "A Few Good Men" and admires Aaron Sorkin. But now wonders if Col. Jessup wasn't more right than wrong.