President Donald Trump and his advisers have kept their legal rationale for the ongoing U.S. military campaign against drug traffickers in the southern Caribbean close to the chest, but have recently gotten more specific.

This comes as the U.S. military continues to strike boats allegedly transporting drugs in the Caribbean and the east Pacific Ocean. At the time of writing, 15 U.S. strikes have destroyed 16 vessels and killed 64 people.

Some administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have gone beyond the drug issue to focus on ousting Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, a man the White House depicts as so brutal, corrupt and threatening to U.S. interests in the Western Hemisphere that he must be deposed.

Shoddy justification

The good news is that lawmakers res

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