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America is finally seeing a president who understands that our first duty is to protect the American people, not appease foreign thugs. After a series of U.S. strikes on vessels the administration says were carrying narcotics, the White House made clear it will not let narco-terrorists use the seas to poison our citizens.
These were not idle patrols — multiple strikes this fall have been publicly acknowledged, with U.S. officials saying dozens of suspected traffickers were killed and two survivors taken aboard a U.S. warship. The administration has pointed to groups like Tren de Aragua and other criminal networks as the operational threat moving drugs and human misery through the Caribbean.
President Trump didn’t mince words: after bragging that the drug boats are largely gone from the water, he warned that if the cartels “come by land” the U.S. will hit them hard and, if necessary, inform Congress about any ground operations. That bluntness is exactly what Americans want to hear — a leader willing to do what it takes to stop fentanyl and cartel terror at the source.
Conservatives should cheer a return to common-sense, muscular policy. For years Democrats and feckless bureaucrats treated drug trafficking like a social problem to be negotiated away; the result was mass overdose deaths and lawlessness on our borders. Calling these cartels what they are and treating them as organized, transnational threats is the only responsible way to save lives.
Of course the usual suspects are shrieking about “war powers” and “illegal killings,” but rhetoric changes nothing about the threat facing our communities. Legal debates can and should run their course while we reduce the flow of poison into our neighborhoods; Congress can either stand with the American people or pretend the opioid crisis is someone else’s problem. The international hand-wringing won’t stop a single fentanyl death.
The left’s reflexive outrage is as predictable as it is dangerous — every time Republicans act to secure the country they scream “overreach” while offering nothing but moralizing lectures and open borders. If Washington wants to play politics, fine: put up or shut up. Back the president’s effort to cripple narco-terror networks, fund the Coast Guard and law enforcement, and restore sovereignty to our hemisphere.
Meanwhile, Caracas is posturing with saber-rattling and talk of air defenses, which proves the point: the Maduro regime harbors and profits from criminal networks, and it will respond when its criminal revenue streams dry up. Patriots who love this country should support a leader who defends our streets and children rather than excuse the killers who flood America with drugs. The message to Maduro and the cartels is simple — stop, or face the consequences.
