Navy Lawyer Just Nuked Democrats’ Claims That Trump’s Narco Boat Strikes Are ‘Illegal’
The current debate reflects unresolved tensions in U.S. security policy: between secrecy and transparency, deterrence and restraint, and legal theory and public perception. Whether the operation is ultimately judged lawful or flawed, its political aftershocks highlight how contested the use of force has become—and how quickly legal arguments can be absorbed into partisan narratives.
In that sense, the controversy is not only about what happened at sea, but about how a divided political system processes questions of power, responsibility, and the human cost of security decisions.
