Letters for Sunday, December 21, 2025 |
Speaker ignores facts, morality on boat strike
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the second attack that killed two survivors clinging to an overturned speedboat off the Venezuelan coast was “entirely appropriate” and followed DOD rules. He called the military strike in September “overly politicized.”
“This is a straightforward case, narco-terrorists were caught in the process of smuggling deadly drugs throughout the United States.
The individuals on that vessel were not helpless castaways. They were drug runners on a capsized drug boat and by all indications, attempting to recover it so they could continue pushing drugs to kill Americans.”
The Speaker is a liar and ignoramus who understands nothing about the Christianity he espouses, the Constitution, the Geneva Convention or international law.
The people on the boat were denied the right to defend themselves, but Johnson knows that the people killed were “drug runners” and were trying to turn the boat over so as to “continue pushing drugs to kill Americans.”
How does he know that? Trump, suffering from dementia, and Hegseth, a drunken third-rate FOX weekend host, and their military lackeys told him so.
He ignores Christian morality, the international rules of law and American military ethics, claiming that killing helpless survivors of........