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President Donald J. Trump has once again done what every past administration has promised but failed to deliver: he took real action. Not a press conference, not another “blue ribbon commission,” not another meaningless “war on drugs” slogan. He ordered a military strike that destroyed a cartel vessel carrying narcotics into our nation. This is the third strike in a single month. Three direct hits. Three fewer threats. And three loud messages to the world: America will defend itself.
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Well, well, well, once again we have the Wall Street Journal and its reporters who slant the story with words like “allegedly,” “questions remain,” and “critics argue.” Spare me. And let me make this extremely clear. I don’t care at all about drug smugglers being killed. They don’t care about who they kill, then it’s simply a game of get them first, and we have the upper hand even with one hand restrained. So cry yourself a river on the left, on the right, let’s not cheer but calmly explain to those who will listen, “this is a war.” 
So, these were narco-terrorists who have previously enjoyed easy passage, but not so any more. These were traffickers of death, moving poison through routes we have tracked for nearly a century are real. Intelligence confirmed it. The vessel was on a known trafficking passage. There was no doubt about what was happening. It was tracked from where they left and where they were eliminated. And Trump did not hesitate. He acted. 
Now, this is where, in an America a generation or two ago, bands would play, people would cheer, and you could walk the streets with your family and feel safe, rather than in fear of your daughter, sister, or wife having her throat slit. 
Now, let’s step back. For over 50 years, America has lived under the shadow of a Vietnam-style war on drugs. Billions spent. Thousands dead. Fentanyl pouring through our borders. Law enforcement begging for help but chained by regulations, lawsuits, and political correctness. Politicians on both sides talking tough while looking the other way. Meanwhile, communities collapse, and families bury their children.
Trump changed that. He recognized what it really is: not just a “drug problem,” but warfare. Cartels are not businessmen; they are terrorists. They destabilize nations, fund gangs, and flood our streets with chemical weapons disguised as narcotics. They kill more Americans each year than most of the declared wars ever did. And now, finally, America has a president who refuses to play defense. He strikes. He destroys the threat at its source.
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Okay then, here’s what we have. Trump did what needs to be done, and yet — here comes the chorus. The media. The Democrats. The lawyers. “What about legality? What about constitutionality? What about international law?” Give me a break. Where were these voices when Americans died of fentanyl overdoses? Where were the cries for justice when families lost children to cartel violence? Where were the constitutional purists when government bureaucrats locked down the nation during COVID and told us to “just obey”? And if you say anything that Biden, Obama, or Clinton says to blindly believe in, we, yes we are deplatformed, debanked, and fired from the job.  Again, how rich, people are fired in the private sector for spewing vile hate and cheering the death of Charlie Kirk, but millions were terminated from over a questionable, untested, and poorly researched genetic modifier that stretched the definition of what a true vaccine is to its absolute limits.  Ah the hyp