Trump’s Drug War Exposes More Hypocrisy

Letter to Ephesians: WSJ notes Trump’s build up vs “narco-terrorists” has defense industry licking its chops to sell its new hi-tech tools. Funny. Paper & rest of MSM seldom called out got rocks pharma during Obamacare fiasco or environmentalist hucksters before.

It's not that the WSJ’s editorial board hasn’t been applauding No. 47’s push to rearm and otherwise revitalize American’s Armed Forces, i.e., to make up for years of neglect by Democratic Administrations before his; recent editorials have also given some left-handed (no pun intended) support to Trump’s version of Reagan’s War on Drugs. Yet, some of the paper’s best cynical reporters seldom let a cheap shot go by when the president sticks his already prominent chin out further. Consider the story titled, “Trump’s Focus on Drug War Means Big Business for Defense Startups.” It sums up president’s drug policy by pointing how, “Drones, sensors and AI platforms developed for other theaters are being rebranded as tools for the fight against ‘narco-terror.’”

Well, what else would one expect? Hi-tech advancements developed against other crazies around the world shouldn’t be used against crazies in the Western Hemisphere? As the report itself concedes, “In November, the Coast Guard unveiled at Port Everglades, Fla., a record seizure of around 60,000 pounds of cocaine” with the help of a drone from an AI start-up “that can be launched from ships and spend up to 13 hours flying over water, sending video feeds to operators and flagging possible targets.” Such new weapons of war against “narco-terrorists” may not immunize USA from future attacks by the drug cartels, but they are unmasking the extreme danger they pose to America and better than the confused, often ineffective response made to Covid and the high costs triggered by the Affordable Health Care Act.

Davd Soul