For decades, illegal drugs from all over the world–and particularly from Central and South America–have come into the United States.

As decades have passed, illegal drugs have become more and more lethal.

The drug trade is no mere set of commercial transactions.

It is no mere set of illegal commercial transactions.

It is a criminal enterprise.

Yet it’s more than a mere criminal enterprise.

This is an invasion of the United States of America, an invasion that has taken more lives than this country lost in any of its wars. Correction: In any of its other wars.

It is high time that the United States treat this invasion like the invasion that is it.

It is high time that the United States treat this war like the war that it is.

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This country has begun doing just that by responding to this invasion, this war, as this country should: With unapologetic military force.

The United States has begun taking to the high seas and blowing up vessels with illegal drugs and illegal-drug dealers.

Such illegal drugs, destroyed by America firepower, will never enter the United States and kill Americans.

Such illegal-drug dealers, taken out by American firepower, will never again prey upon innocent Americans whose lives they knowingly take.

Such illegal-drug dealers will no longer aim their wares at Americans, wares that are deadly, albeit in a different way than those of an invading military force.

Good riddance.

And since the United States has taken out these invaders, it needn’t spend scarce resources arresting them, prosecuting them, appointing lawyers to defend them, or housing them for however long.

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The usual suspects, particularly those with Trump Derangement Syndrome, will no doubt denounce the Trump administration for depriving the invaders of their rights.

Would the usual suspects, given an opportunity to take out the terrorists on Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001, before they boarded four commercial airplanes, have declined the opportunity, because that would deprive the terrorists of their rights?

Would the usual suspects have stood on Diamond Head, at the end of Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, seen the invasion coming, and urged not firing on the incoming bombers, because that would deprive crew members of their rights?

How utterly foolish the usual suspects can be.

Whatever rights such enemies have are trumped–pun intended–by the need to protect America and American lives.

If that means taking out such enemies before they take out Americans, then so be it.

The more such enemies the United States can take out before they take out Americans, the better off the United States will be.

Sink them all into the high seas.

There’s no point in playing nice with, and no need to show mercy to, those who would kill us.

Not one iota of niceness or mercy. Not one.

This is their war. They started it. We are their targets. We should defend ourselves like the targets we are. We should do so carefully, wisely, and with all the determination we can muster.

This country needn’t explain itself or apologize for defending itself from the invasion that illegal-drug dealers carry out every day, every week, every month, every year, after year, after year.

Take them out, Mr. President.

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Not long after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, America’s new president reviewed, before a joint session of Congress, American progress in the war on terror.

After recalling that some terrorists had been captured, the new president recalled that others had met another fate.

Let’s put it this way, the new president said. They’re no longer a threat to the United States of America or her friends and allies.

To which there was a thunderous ovation, and rightly so.

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A quarter of a century later, invading drug dealers have begun to meet another fate as well.

Again, good riddance.

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Randy Elf has no patience for invading illegal-drug dealers.

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