Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Dec. 6 that he supports the decision in early September to initiate a second strike on a drug boat in the South Caribbean that killed two survivors of a previous strike.
“I fully support that strike,” Hegseth said while speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, on Dec. 6.
“I would have made the call myself.”
Hegseth also defended the broader rationale for the series of strikes over recent weeks, which have killed more than 80 people who U.S. officials say are drug traffickers.
Democrats and other critics say such strikes may have potentially violated international law if shipwrecked survivors were targeted in a subsequent strike….
Hegseth Defends Second September Drug Boat Strike
