All week long, I have tried to cry for the narco-terrorists who survived a U.S. military strike on their drug-laden boat, only to be snuffed in a second attack.

Somehow, my eyes have stayed totally dry.

The only thing wrong with the Venezuelan Two-Step is that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth did not hold a press conference and take full credit for this operation.

Critics from left to right have clutched their pearls so hard over this episode that their hands are smothered in pearl dust.

The sane and thoughtful Chris Whiton is among the detractors. Writing in Tuesday’s Substack, the Trump 45 foreign-affairs advisor complained: “It is a federal crime for a U.S. national or servicemember to willfully kill wounded, sick, or shipwrecked combatants who are protected by the Geneva Conventions.”

Whiton would be correct, if an overhead MS-9 Reaper drone detonated a Venezuelan Navy vessel and........

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