Admiral Frank Bradley:  Making the Right Call


Advice from a Deputy Sheriff:  

"If in defense of your life you must discharge your weapon, empty the weapon.  State the individual was  still moving.  This is why you kept firing.  Do not leave a bullet in the chamber."  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15360569/Secret-intelligence-controversial-war-crimes-drug-boat-strikes-reveal-Pete-Hegseth-ordered-11-onboard-killed.html

The order to kill the remaining two narco-terrorists is a legal order.  I am perplexed regarding the angst. Refusal to fully execute a solitary and miniaturized operational action shows a weakness in chain of command.  The chain functioned as it should: From our SecWar Hegseth, to the US Special Operations Command, to the C2 afforded Admiral Bradley. All uniformed military members involved in this strategic strike did the job for which they are trained. The order is properly executed and the mission is accomplished.  This is the work of professional standing armies.

As an aside, I believe the designation of narco-terrorist is too weak a signal.  The drug cartels should receive designation as biological terrorists and treated accordingly.  What they are transporting does not just sicken, it also kills.

After 9/11,  I read an Al Qaeda Manual that taught members how to mix up biological agents in a large pot in the kitchen sink. These "recipes" would sicken thousands but had a negligible LD50.  Rate of illness would be about the same as consuming warm chicken salad on a hot summer day; but generally speaking the poisons were not lethal  Your great grandmother might die because she was 96 years of age. But the non-geriatric would perk up quickly with a trip to the Emergency Department after receiving anti-emetics and a couple liters of intravenous fluid.

The biological terrorists are not transporting warm chicken salad.

We need a new suite of laws which more properly defines and addresses the introduction of large-batch biology-targeting agents into our nation with the intent to kill.  This will potentiate our ability to strike with impunity at these dangerous targets and provide for reality-driven optics for the public.  Because I can assure you that any parent who has lost a child to a drug overdose would approve of the order given by Admiral Bradley.


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