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The reason why Marines shave everyday in the field is to remind them that they are humans, not animals. Unit discipline is essential to maintaining professionalism and standards.

The US military doesn’t train its soldiers to plunder villages, rape their women, and torture and kill prisoners.

One reason why the US military has always instilled adherence to the law of warfare is because we want the enemy to treat our soldiers and sailors accordingly. Once the United States advertises that rules of engagement and rules of warfare are dispensable, then we invite every other nation to blow up our private vessels, kill our shipwrecked survivors, and do whatever they please, in their trumped up “national interests.”

So yes Ned, these extrajudicial kill operations are unlawful, dressing up drug interdiction as a war against narco terrorist organizations. If you believe the United States is justified using the military and Navy, then the rules of war apply. You can’t have it both ways.

There’s a difference between drug interdiction operations and intentionally killing everyone aboard suspected drug carrying vessels. And no, this is not a “political” stunt calling out what the Trump Administration is doing.

Again, OK for Air Force and Navy assets to target trailer parks and housing projects on US soil where suspected drug manufacturers and traffickers have set up shop?