‘We are going to wage combat against drug cartels that are flooding American streets and killing Americans,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday night. America’s “war on drugs,” he revealed, was a metaphor no more. Indeed, open hostilities had already begun. Earlier that evening, the firepower U.S. Southern Command has been amassing in the Caribbean Sea over the last several weeks struck what American authorities described as a drug boat originating in Venezuela and believed to be bound for “Trinidad or some other country in the Caribbean,” Rubio added. “Instead of interdicting it, on the president’s orders, we blew it up.”
One senior American official summed up the new doctrine to which the president appealed. “The president’s overall perspective is that, if there is a terrorist threat to the homeland of the United States, he trusts the military to take that threat out,” the official told Axios, “whether it’s a drug boat off the coast of Venezuela or an al-Qaeda terrorist in the Middle East.”
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