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White House deputy chief of staff James Blair made it plain on Hannity this week that the front page of President Trump’s agenda is the fight against narcoterrorism, and he didn’t mince words: drugs will not be run into this country on his watch. That blunt promise reflects a White House that finally treats illegal narcotics and the cartels that traffic them as the existential threat they are to American families. Americans who have watched their towns poisoned by fentanyl and driven to despair by cartel violence should feel relief that leaders in Washington are prioritizing real security over feel-good platitudes.
The administration has matched words with action, directing the military and naval forces to target vessels and routes used by cartel networks in the Caribbean and beyond. What critics call “strikes” are the logical consequence of decades of Democratic surrender at the border and the foolish policies that allowed these criminal enterprises to flourish. The operations have already disrupted shipments and signaled that the United States will no longer be a passive drug market waiting to be flooded.
This is no half-measure: the government has assembled a robust maritime campaign — deploying assets, intelligence and new task forces under an operation the administration describes as aimed at crushing narco-terror networks. Conservatives who have long called for a restored posture of deterrence should welcome the clear-eyed strategy: choke off the cash flows that sustain violent cartels and their corrupt enablers. If the Washington swamp had shown this kind of backbone years ago, thousands of American lives might have been spared.
Of course, the Left and the legacy press have recoiled, trotting out the same narratives that excuse lawlessness and sympathize with the traffickers’ enablers overseas. Endless hand-wringing about legal technicalities and performative outrage over “fishing boat” claims is a cowardly dodge that blames America’s defenders instead of the criminals who ship poison into our communities. The hard truth is that defending our citizens sometimes requires decisive force, and that uncomfortable fact does not make our leaders villains; it makes them responsible.
Now is the moment for Congress to stand with the president and fund the tools our law enforcement and military need to finish this fight — not grandstand with resolutions while cartels profit. Patriots know that protecting our borders, backing our service members, and draining the cartels’ coffers is the kind of bold, serious governance Americans elected to see. James Blair’s message on Hannity was a reminder that this administration is acting on those promises, and conservatives must keep pressure on Washington until every pathway for drugs into our towns is shut down.
