A Republican lawmaker left two top military commanders stunned Tuesday when he asked why the US is not “just killing” Chinese drug traffickers bringing fentanyl precursors into the Western Hemisphere.
“In your professional military opinion — put aside everything, policy — as an admiral, if we just started killing these people that are killing Americans (through drug overdoses) — 250,000, 300,000 Americans; about the amount of people that died in World War II — why aren’t we just killing these people?” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) asked Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, who leads US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), during the House Armed Services Committee hearing.
Holsey, who oversees military operations in and around South America, initially responded by asking what Van Orden meant by “these people.”
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