Homicide With a Flag: What the Caribbean Boat Strikes Reveal About U.S. Power
The scandal is not that one secretary of war may have ordered a second missile into a sinking boat. It is that after Vietnam, Iraq, Gaza, Yemen and the drone era, anybody in Washington can still act surprised. This long read traces how the war on drugs, frontier thinking and algorithmic targeting have normalised extrajudicial killing and turned whole populations into expendable categories.