Intelligence is not law. Drug runners headed to Suriname is not a threat to USA. I believe the Admiral was carrying out some kind of order, but, unless Suriname asked for assistance in alliance with USA there was no reason at all to destroy the boat or kill people on it.
The Admiral is not a stupid man, where is the permission to carry out this TASK of an enormous Navy presence come from? Believing there is danger to the USA is not a legal capacity to define this mission. Intelligence is just that. It is a good lead, but, any activity by the military has to be based in fact as well. If we are to believe there were two boats then the mission included both vessels and the cargo, not simply an estimation.
Someone is really screwing up. Who is it?
Americans don’t deploy a full aircraft carrier strike group to stop speed boats. That is over kill. It is no different than deploying the National Guard or military to carry out arrests and policing. It is not proper use of those assets. It creates danger otherwise not present.
In urban warfare, Former President Obama made the kill order. No one else. The intelligence was given to him and the order issued by him personally was carried out. When Osama bin Laden meet the USA military and his capture and death, Firmer President Obama was in the Situation Room observing every detail on camera and when a helicopter failed to carry our troops and the evidence of their mission. One helicopter would have to do, but, if the mission required different assets Obama was present to see it through. This mess in the Caribbean is completely inappropriate. Very messy.
