On Friday, the United States destroyed what the Defense Department alleged was a boat affiliated with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian rebel group, using the Southern Caribbean to smuggle drugs into the country. The latest operation, which reportedly killed three people, is the seventh since the aerial campaign began in September. It took place on the same day that President Donald Trump claimed another successful strike earlier in the week, this time against a semi-submersible that took off from Venezuela. Two people were killed in that attack, according to the government.

We’ve heard the phrase “war on drugs” before. President Richard Nixon declared it in the early 1970s, and each successive president since has largely used the war paradigm to describe the campaign against drug

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