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Editor, Times-Union:
What would be the response of the United States if 21 of our citizens (noncombatants) were murdered by a foreign navy off our shores in four separate incidents? The foreign power says the citizens were transporting drugs, but they only provided evidence of that in one case and they have no idea of the identity of those victims.
They have no idea of the identity of those killed, but they are trying to claim they belong to gangs and were transporting drugs? Why weren’t they stopped and searched instead of murdered?
That is what has happened recently off the coast of Venezuela, and the foreign power is us, the United States of America. Of course, we are an “exceptional” country, so the standards we apply to other countries don’t necessarily apply to us.
These strikes were approved by a U.S. president who campaigned on the promise of stopping a couple of wars going on and not getting involved in new ones. It’s not legal to kill civilians who are not directly taking part in an armed attack, but then we are an “exceptional” country, so maybe that doesn’t apply either?
Dean Beery
North Manchester, via email
