The use of excessive force will have long term consequences -- Sabrina Haake

[erronis]

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/trumps-use-of-excessive-force-will

And a hauntingly beautiful rejoinder to the vile speeches at Quantico, from Robert Arnold, Poet of the South

Last weekend, off the Venezuelan coast, Trump ordered another summary execution of people on a fishing boat whom he claims were drug traffickers. Since then, despite the international outcry, Trump officials have provided no intel, no intercepted communications, no photos— no evidence whatsoever— that drugs were even onboard when the strike command was given.

It was the 4th such strike by the US in as many weeks. The ship exploded on contact, killing everyone onboard. A total of 21 people have now died on the high seas on Trump’s orders, based on suspicion of drug trafficking.

Trump defends the strikes as countering “narco-terrorist” members of Tren de Aragua, which Trump has unilaterally designated a foreign terrorist organization. But equipment analysis rebuts his claim: the small fishing boats could not have reached the US mainland due to distance and fuel limitations of the vessels’ small size.

Whether the dead were engaged in drug trafficking or not, law-abiding nations do not kill like this. The United Nations condemned the strikes because “International law does not allow governments to simply murder alleged drug traffickers. Under international law, suspected drug traffickers should be disrupted, investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the rule of law, including through international cooperation.” Extrajudicial killings are also illegal under the US Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Brutality without restraint will destroy America and the ideals she stands for

Robert Arnold, “the Poet of the South,” has recorded a hauntingly beautiful rejoinder to the Trump administration’s lust for violence. After Arnold witnessed Trump and Hegseth’s shameful speeches at Quantico, where Hegseth called for lessening the rules of conflict in favor of muscular lethality, he wrote “On the silence of the generals.”

Arnold’s talk is a seven minute review of why military restraint makes nations strong, and how discipline rather than unbridled “lethality” advances humanity. Every classroom in the nation should watch it. Arnold observes correctly that lethality without restraint is not strategy; it is butchery. As if responding to Trump’s snuff videos, Arnold notes that even during the Civil War, “General Grant, bloody and relentless, knew victory meant binding the wounds of the nation— not gloating in violence.”

I've posted Robert Arnold's excellent video on this DU page. I didn't want to duplicate links in the video section to remove clutter.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220711688

[durablend]

1. That's the idea

Brutality without restraint will destroy America and the ideals she stands for

That's what they want.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Yes this is the goal. Degrade and destroy everything that made the US great.