Blowing Up Drug Boats Isn’t a War Crime — Pete Hegseth Earns the Presidential Medal of Freedom

In a football film called “The Program” (Touchstone/Goldwyn/Buena Vista), stud quarterback Joe Cain injects his teammates with testosterone. With the game on the line, he declares: “It’s time to put the women and children to bed and go looking for dinner.”

Following the disastrous Biden era of what many describe as a “beta male” presidency, President Donald Trump has injected America with much-needed alpha energy.

The military is no longer a social experiment for individuals spanning 200 gender identities. The Department of Defense now functions as the Department of War.

Thanks to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the armed forces are returning to their original purpose. As Rush Limbaugh once stated, the military’s role is to “kill people and break things.” This return to core duties is most justified in the destruction of Venezuelan drug boats.

Democrats seek to have Secretary Hegseth’s neck fitted for political decapitation. Instead, President Trump should honor him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

This would be a no-brainer if Republicans weren’t so fearful of their own shadows.

Even during Trump’s presidency, some Republicans remain terrified that irrelevant figures at The New York Times might dislike them.

In the drug war, President Trump, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary Hegseth have taken offense.

Venezuelan drug boats are being blasted into what Yosemite Sam would call “smithereenies.”

Who besides criminals and terrorists could object to such actions? The women and children do—yet they need to be put to bed.

The women represent Democrats; the children embody Ron Paul civil libertarians. Putting them to bed means confronting them in the press with as much ferocity as we do drug boats.

Republicans excel at winning policy battles but lose public relations wars. The GOP still hasn’t learned how to remove gloves and declare what needs saying loudly and clearly.

Start with the women: It’s easy for a liberal to be concerned when someone else’s child dies from Fentanyl, not their own.

Democrats hate Trump and Hegseth more than they hate Fentanyl. They are willing to intentionally lose the drug war to win midterm elections.

Pat them on the head and give them a 500-page Federal Reserve manual to keep them occupied.

Highlight that it’s easy to oppose blowing up drug boats when their political base is fueled by college stoners eating Cheetos.

Republicans must not repeat their mistake of yielding on an issue where they are entirely correct.

Blowing up Venezuelan drug boats is legal, moral, ethical—and righteous. These actions destroy Fentanyl and save American children’s lives.

There is no constitutional prohibition against blowing up the boats. The Bill of Rights applies only to people on U.S. soil; it ceases to exist for those abroad.

International law does not prohibit such actions. The Geneva Convention applies only to nations, not terrorist groups.

Blowing up drug-running vessels is not a war crime. War crimes involve the killing of innocents. If survivors return to retrieve drugs after being bombed, terrorism continues—blasting the boats again until neutralized is within the rules of war and common sense.

Democrats never apologize when they are wrong, but Republicans can stop apologizing when they are as right as possible.

Do the right thing because it’s right—even if political consequences follow. Voters may reward politicians who take principled stands on issues as serious as preventing murdered children.

Put the women and children to bed.

Never send a liberal to do a man’s job.

Unleash our military to fight bad guys, kill terrorists, and save children.

The people giving orders to eliminate drug lords are the good guys. Those who carry out the killings deserve consideration for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

This is so simple that non-drug users easily understand it.

Give Pete Hegseth the Presidential Medal of Freedom.