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Rob Finnerty was right to call out Democrats who rush to defend lawlessness while twisting facts to suit a media narrative. Rather than standing with American families who have watched their children and neighbors die from illicit fentanyl, too many on the left choose to cast suspected narco-traffickers as helpless “shipwreck survivors” — a moral inversion that should outrage every patriot. The Finnerty segment hammered home what millions already know: weakness on the border and softness toward transnational criminals carries a deadly price.
The military strikes on vessels plying known narcotics routes have been a hard but necessary response to a trafficker network that functions as an army against our homeland. Reporting shows the United States has taken lethal action against multiple suspected drug-smuggling boats after careful intelligence and a declared campaign to disrupt the flow of deadly fentanyl into American communities. No one likes the reality of war, but pretending these are ordinary criminal incidents ignores the scale of harm these networks inflict on our streets.
The predictable outcry from some Democrats and the media over a follow-up strike that reportedly hit survivors is political theater, not a sober legal analysis. Lawmakers and activists leapt to label the operations illegal without acknowledging the full operational context provided to commanders and the national security imperative driving these moves. If our goal is fewer overdoses and safer neighborhoods, reflexive sanctimony for traffickers does nothing to solve the problem and everything to embolden the cartels.
Make no mistake: senior officials and conservative voices have framed these missions as part of an armed conflict with designated narco-terrorist organizations that have declared economic and physical war on America. That is not hyperbole when millions of poison-laced pills and kilo after kilo of fentanyl flow across the hemisphere, devastating communities from coast to coast. Those defending the strikes understand the tough moral calculus: a surgically applied deterrent now can save countless American lives later.
The numbers are brutal and indisputable — the overdose crisis exploded into the tens of thousands per year and remained at devastating levels through recent years, driven largely by synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Federal data and public-health reports show overdose deaths reached historic highs in the Biden years before recent improvements, underscoring that policy failures at the border and in foreign safe havens for cartels translate directly into suffering at home. If Democrats want to debate legality, fine; but the urgent question for voters is why so many prefer performances over policies that would stop the flow of poison.
Conservatives should not flinch from defending the brave Americans in uniform or from demanding accountability from political leaders who enabled this crisis with open-border politics and soft-on-crime rhetoric. Our stance is simple and unpatriotic to concede: protect the American people, honor law enforcement, and deny safe harbor to those who profit from death. The alternative — timidity and moral preening while our citizens die — is intolerable.
Now is the time for Congress to get serious: secure the border, cut the cartels’ supply chains, and empower commanders with lawful authorities to stop the traffickers before their next shipment reaches a U.S. street. Enough lectures from elites who would rather virtue-signal than govern; hardworking Americans want results, not sanctimony, and they deserve leaders who will do what is necessary to keep our families safe.
