Killing U.S. Citizen or Innocents Is Okay, But Killing Cartel Drug Runners Is Not
Did you know that Obama okayed 542 drone strikes which killed 3,797 people, including roughly 324 innocent civilians? I bet you didn’t. Neither did I. Why is that? Where was the outrage by the media?
Politics is sometimes confusing. Or, it isn’t. It all depends on understanding the Left’s and its media sycophant’s points of view. If you had just arrived on Earth and were told these three facts, you’d scratch your head trying to understand the governing principle behind them:
(1) On September 30, 2011, the President of the United States (POTUS) ordered a drone strike on American citizen Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki in Yemen because al-Awlaki was alleged to be an organizer for al Qaeda. The strike that killed al-Awlaki occurred without al-Awlaki being afford the constitutional rights he was due such as due process, the right to legal counsel, and the bar against cruel and unusual punishment. No action was taken against POTUS or his administration for the killing of a suspected terrorist;
(2) On August 29, 2021, POTUS ordered a drone strike in Afghanistan that killed ten innocent people, including seven children, because it was thought they were part of an attack on U.S. forces. Those murdered weren’t U.S. citizens, so lacked constitutional rights under our system. No action was taken against POTUS or his administration for the killing of innocents; and
(3) On September 2, 2025, the U.S. Defense Secretary acting under orders from POTUS ordered a strike on Venezuelan drug cartel members running drugs via a fast boat to America during which a second strike to kill two survivors from the first strike were killed. Those killed weren’t U.S. citizens, so lacked constitutional rights under our system. The Left and the media are calling for action against POTUS and his administration for the killing of drug cartel members.
Two other facts you should know:
(A) From the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on America to today, roughly 3,600 Americans have died from terrorism, with another 4,492 American soldiers killed in Iraq and 2,456 killed in Afghanistan fighting in the War on Terror; and
(B) Since 2001, over 1,100,00 Americans have died from drug overdoses, with most of those from fentanyl coming from Central and South American drug cartels.
So, roughly 10,600 Americans killed by terrorists or wars fighting them versus 1,100,000 killed by drugs from the drug cartels.
Based on the above facts, our visitor to Earth would be mystified that it was okay to kill an American citizen abroad and ten innocents, but it was wrong to kill drug cartel drug runners trying to bring killer drugs to America. To help our visitor friend, we’d only have to provide two more facts. First, the POTUS in the first two cases were Democrats (Barack Obama and Joe Biden, respectively), so nothing they do is ever considered wrong by the media. Secondly, POTUS in the third case is a Republican (Donald Trump), which means everything he and his team do are wrong no matter what.
I cannot fathom why any American—Right, Left, or in the media—would argue that the first two cases above weren’t deeply problematic and the third case wasn’t the right call. Did you know that Obama okayed 542 drone strikes which killed 3,797 people, including roughly 324 innocent civilians? I bet you didn’t. Neither did I. Why is that? Where was the outrage by the media?
I hope some savvy media consultant on the Right is putting together a devastating television and social media commercial for the 2026 midterm elections that emotionally shows how the Left coddles illegal immigrants who kill Americans (images of Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley, William Carter, and Jennifer Lower would be powerful), is soft on serial hardcore criminals who stab or burn women on trains (images from the trains of Iryna Zarutska and Bethany MaGee would be hard hitting), supports immigrant communities that defraud U.S. taxpayers of billions of dollars (images of the Somalians in Minnesota would work), and defends drug cartel drug runners whose drugs have killed 1.1 million Americans (images of dead Americans from fentanyl ideal here). Seems to me such an ad would be highly effective when asking voters which political party do they want in control to keep them and their families safe.
P.S. A word on the kerfuffle over the report on Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Look, I didn’t follow or listen to either man when they were just talking heads. I picked up enough on X to know that both men heavily—and I mean heavily—trafficked in virtually every conspiracy theory on the Right, with each earning lots of money for doing so, especially Bongino. Being a talking head bomb-thrower, however, is very different than working as an agency head or sub-head for a president. I think both men have struggled with the transition because government officials just can’t pop off about anything or disclose government documents willy nilly lest they violate someone’s civil rights.
I think Bongino’s “deep state Devine” attack on New York Post reporter Miranda Devine is top-notch ass-hattery. Devine did more than virtually anyone else to expose the Biden Family for the grifters and felons they are in her two books (Laptop from Hell and The Big Guy) and NYP reporting. Devine’s work unequivocally helped nearly defeat Biden in 2020 and Trump win in 2024. Both Patel and Bongino need to soberly read the report and make changes to how they operate.
Report aside, I find it offensive that Patel has used government resources to go home or visit his girlfriend in Nashville so often. Yes, I know he is required to use the jet, but he doesn’t HAVE to go home or visit his girlfriend. My view on working for a president based on having done so is you do so in a manner that NEVER EVER takes advantage of the perquisites of office or leads to undermining the president. If Patel wanted to be FBI Director, he should have taken the role knowing he would not be able to go home or visit his girlfriend (versus her coming to Washington, D.C.) precisely because it would require the unnecessary expenditure of taxpayer resources. If it was wrong for FBI Director Chris Wray to fly to his house in the Poconos on weekends, it is wrong for Patel to do so, too. I knew political appointees who abused their offices by taking every perquisite possible. As I’ve written, it disgusted me then and it disgust me now.
P.P.S. My friends over at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation issued a new report, “Interstate Migration in Minutes: How Fast Are Taxpayers Leaving or Entering Each State?” Despite rosy press releases from Governor Mike DeWine, Republicans in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate, and JobsOhio, Ohio isn’t winning the fight to keep and gain citizens. Not only isn’t Ohio winning, it is actually losing quite badly. Based on the data, NTUF ranks Ohio #36 with “someone new leav[ing] Ohio every 1 hour, 27 minutes, and 35 seconds.” Thus, every time you watch a movie, an Ohioan has stopped being an Ohioan to become a Floridian (#1), Texan (#2), North Carolinian (#3), South Carolinian (#4), or Tennessean (#5).
P.P.S.S. As I wrote in “America Doesn’t Have an Affordability Problem. We Have Low Job Growth and High Debt Problems,” America has job growth and debt problems. To that end, see the graph below showing nine straight months of contraction in manufacturing.
Also, see the two images below showing the level of new debt used on Black Friday for purchases, as well as the greater use of “buy now, pay later” to acquire holiday goods. If Trump cannot get the economy moving so job competition increases thereby pushing wages up, the above commercial about who do you want to keep you and your family safe won’t matter no how good it is.
