Military strikes put ‘exceptionalism’ to test

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.

They have no idea of the identity of those killed, but they 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 campai

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