"the notion that the president has inherent constitutional powers to summarily kill people he suspects of trafficking cocaine is bankrupt to begin with"
This seems like the heart of the matter. Is it true? I'd say it's obviously true. First, you can't simply kill people you suspect are committing a crime; you have to apprehend them and then prove their guilt. Second, you can't kill noncombatants, period. Third, it's not a war unless Congress says so, every sixty days, or else definitely declares war. Quite apart from the disgusting slaughter of the two survivors of the first strike, the whole enterprise is squalid, depraved, and quintessentially Trumpian.
"the notion that the president has inherent constitutional powers to summarily kill people he suspects of trafficking cocaine is bankrupt to begin with"
This seems like the heart of the matter. Is it true? I'd say it's obviously true. First, you can't simply kill people you suspect are committing a crime; you have to apprehend them and then prove their guilt. Second, you can't kill noncombatants, period. Third, it's not a war unless Congress says so, every sixty days, or else definitely declares war. Quite apart from the disgusting slaughter of the two survivors of the first strike, the whole enterprise is squalid, depraved, and quintessentially Trumpian.