Kass: Democrats Protecting Maduro’s Narcos

Should we be blowing up innocent drug runners from Maduro's state. Hmmm...I don't know how you can reasonably electrocute them when there in a high speed boat? I'm willing to keep an open mind however.

Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro with Iranian President Rouhani

Democrats Protecting Maduro’s Narcos

By John Kass

Sunday Dec. 7, 2025

For the 40 years that my wife and I have been together, she’s never lobbied me about a column.

Not once.

Not even when my writing made things difficult for her socially, when I was the lead columnist at the Tribune, a conservative, and our small West Suburban village had been overrun by what I call AWFLS, the Angry White Female Leftists who hectored and ousted a reasonable moderate Democrat, U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D, IL). Our village, Western Springs, became known for all the Hate Has No Home Here signs in the front yards. These were rather like a declaration of war, or at least an “unwelcome mat.”

But there was one time when she asked me to write on a topic that as a mother and a teacher struck her to the core:

The 100,000 young Americans who had been killed by the Narcotraffickers to the indifference and shrugs of the Democrats and the corporate legacy media. They had twisted themselves like pretzels defending Joe Biden’s open borders. I called that column Biden’s Border Chaos, 100,000 Fentanyl Dead and Hands That Rocked the Cradle, about the millions of illegal migrants and the drugs poisonin America’s young.

If you’re a parent, you know how parents process such news of the young Americans poisoned by the narcotraffickers. We’re horrified into stunned silence. I can still see her years ago, when when I’d come home late after work, her hands rocking those twin wooden cradles as I opened the door, Betty wordlessly warning me not to wake up the boys. The hands that rock the cradle shape the world.

While the Southern border has been closed, drugs continue to make their way to America, and death comes with them. I keep hearing the argument that the narcotraffickers of Mexico and Venezuela are providing a service that the American people are willing to pay for. I understand the theoretical economic argument. But do me a favor:

Try to explain that to a grieving father who’s just lost his daughter to the poisoning of narcotraffickers. Because that’s what it is: Poisoning.

It is an act of war.

And I really don’t give two figs if the killers of American young come from Mexico or Venezuela or some Middle-East hellhole. Be clear on this: It is an act of war to kill our kids. Jesus would tie a millstone around their necks and toss them into the sea.

Given the mid-term elections are coming, the hysteria of Democrats and their corrupt handmaidens in the legacy corporate media, their war cry is that the Trump White House taking out narco boats coming from Venezuela into the Caribbean is reprehensible and a war crime. This follows the Democrat’s “Seditious Six thought experiments in propaganda attacking the military chain of command, hoping to intimidate some 18-year-old soldier into disobeying orders. It’s all part of a political game to tear America apart. But the Seditious Six is antithetical to the law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It was organized by an American CIA officer.

Of course it was.

I’m told in their defense that stupidity is not a crime. But the Seditious Six is irksome and dangerous. So I offer have compromise for the Democrats, just as their leader, Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy captain who is by law subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice is restored in rank to be frog marches to his court martial. There he would be stripped of rank and pension.

The Democrats have been at fever pitch screaming that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is a war criminal for blowing up Venezuelan drug boats aimed at the United States.

A useful piece was offered by my favorite periodical, the Federalist The Media’s ‘War Crimes’ Hoax Was Always About Taking Out Hegseth

Of course it was.

“Throughout the past week, these so-called “defenders of democracy” and their Democrat allies have been salivating at an anonymously sourced Washington Post hit piece against War Secretary Pete Hegseth,” writes Shawn Fleetwood. “As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman summarized, the gist of this little hatchet job is that Hegseth supposedly “’gave a spoken directive’ to ‘kill everybody’ after a Sept. 2 strike left two smugglers ‘clinging to the smoldering wreck’” in the Caribbean.

But as Americans have come to learn in the days since the Post’s “bombshell” dropped, all signs point to the hit piece being — wait for it — complete garbage.

In a surprise move, The New York Times — yes that hoax-peddling New York Times — published a story contradicting the Post’s central reported claim that Hegseth ordered military officials to “kill everybody” aboard the suspected drug-smuggling vessel.”

Throughout the past week, these so-called “defenders of democracy” and their Democrat allies have been salivating at an anonymously sourced Washington Post hit piece against War Secretary Pete Hegseth. As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman summarized, the gist of this little hatchet job is that Hegseth supposedly “’gave a spoken directive’ to ‘kill everybody’ after a Sept. 2 strike left two smugglers ‘clinging to the smoldering wreck’” in the Caribbean.”

But the Democrats shrieking like banshees for the head of Hegseth and President Trump have a profound difficulty with history.

Former presidential speechwriter Marc Thiessen of the Washington Post argues that like almost everything, you’ll find Obama involved.

“President Barack Obama did it all the time. Indeed, in targeting cartels it has designated as foreign terrorist organizations, the Trump administration appears to be closely following the playbook pioneered by Obama.

“On taking office, Obama dramatically escalated the use of drone strikes against terrorism targets after ending the CIA’s terrorist interrogation program — finding it was simpler to vaporize enemy combatants rather than capture them alive for questioning. So Obama forged what the New York Times called at the time a “take-no-prisoners policy,” ordering more than 540 drone strikes on terrorists in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen (including one that killed a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula).

“The strikes Obama ordered were similar to those Trump has carried out in the waters off of Venezuela. Obama used what were called “signature strikes” in which the U.S. targeted patterns of behavior denoting terrorist activity (“signatures”) even when the precise identity of the individuals being targeted was unknown. And he routinely carried out so-called “double-tap” strikes — hitting a target once and then striking again to take out any survivors or other terrorists who rushed to the scene after the initial hit.

“We used double-taps all the time,” said David Shedd, former deputy director and acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Obama administration. “You would get the initial signature off of a target that’s been hit,” he told me in a podcast interview, “and if you saw that they ‘squirted’ and were injured … you hit them again.” In fact, he said, “there was often a second predator ready to go … that was fully expected to be used if you didn’t have a 100 percent coming out of the first hit — and maybe a third hit,” adding that “it was done routinely” and there “was bipartisan support on the Hill for doing it.”

Obama personally approved the “kill lists” for these strikes. “Turns out I’m really good at killing people,” Obama reportedly declared to aides. According to one estimate, the strikes Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people.

He was really good at killing people bragged the man from Chicago, the so-called phony reformer who got his start in real estate helped by the convicted bagman Tony Rezko.

He was good at killing people, without warrants, with Democrats silent as drugs spread into America. The Democrats pretend that they’re shocked and surprised as China and Iran develop their foothold in our hemisphere, as America families keep burying their children.