Dan Carden

Indiana's two U.S. senators recently helped defeat an attempt to curb Republican President Donald Trump's unilateral military strikes on boats allegedly carrying drug traffickers through the waters off Central and South America.

At least 21 people have been killed in four separate strikes since Sept. 2 in a dramatic escalation of Trump's self-declared war on drug cartels, which he considers "unlawful combatants" with whom the United States is in "armed conflict."

Trump so far has provided little public evidence the individuals killed on the boats were engaged in drug trafficking or explained why the boats and their passengers needed to immediately be destroyed while they were hundreds of miles away from the United States.

That prompted the U.S. Senate last week to consi

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