Footage of the U.S.’s “double tap” boat strike in the Caribbean on September 2 is extremely disturbing, says a lawmaker who was shown the video in a closed door briefing by top military officials on Thursday. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine and Special Operations Command head Frank Bradley visited Capitol Hill on Thursday. During that visit, officers briefed the top Republicans and…
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If someone is trying to carjack you and you shoot them, that’s legal. If they don’t die and you shoot them again in the head, that’s murder.
Whether or not the boat was running drugs is not relevant to this being a war crime.
What confuses me is that our police force already has a solution for this. If the military was smart about it, they would take a page from their book and always send a solid dozen missles in quick succession every time.
We should get to see it too. We we paid for those extra-egregious murders, make us watch them die.