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So far, the United States has blown up 14 boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, killing at least 57 people. In the two months since the strikes began, the administration has consistently offered the same explanation: The U.S. has a fentanyl-overdose problem, and those boats are a source of the drug. The federal government has stuck to that line despite the Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Homeland Security saying most of the fentanyl brought into this country comes from Mexico, not through the Caribbean. Anyone with further questions is out of luck. There have been no presidential policy speeches, no big Pentagon press conferences. In fact, a few weeks into the boat-strike campaign, Defense Sec

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