No, Venezuelan drug-runners hit by U.S. strikes aren’t “stranded sailors,” they’re narco-terrorists – and the world is better off without them – Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) says, chiding Democrat critics of the U.S. military’s strikes against boats bringing deadly drugs to America.
Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “The Big Weekend Show,” Rep. Fallon called out the hypocrisy of Democrats who condemn the Trump Administration’s strikes on terrorists, but were silent when a Democrat president authorized nearly 30 times as many strikes that killed 40 times more people:
“When Barack Obama authorized 563 strikes on Islamo-fundamentalist terrorists in the Middle East, the Democrats were silent. You could hear crickets.”
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“And now, suddenly, the Democrats are up in arms over around 20 strikes that may have been responsible for 100 deaths when Barack Obama ordered almost 600 that were responsible for up to 4,000."
Rep. Fallon also objected to Democrats’ efforts to sympathetically portray deadly drug-running terrorists who survive initial U.S. strikes as innocent victims:
“To have one of my Democrat colleagues refer to these folks in the Gulf of America as ‘stranded sailors’ – no, they’re narco-terrorists and the world is in a better place without them.”
And, while some Democrats privately support the U.S. strikes against narco-terrorists, they’re afraid to say so because they fear their party’s “hard-left base,” the Texas Republican said:
“We have actually a name for them, to be candid, and it’s ‘the patriotic Democrats.’ The ones that are reasonable, the ones that actually have the best interests of the United States at heart.
“And then there’s the commies. I mean, there are people that, I believe, are truly rooted in Marxist-Leninism that are in the United States Congress. I hate to say that, but it is true. They really are genuinely…anything that actually protects America and American interests, they seem to be against.”
“So, yes, are certainly are certainly some Democrats that know, they have no problem with these strikes – but, some of them have to play to the cameras and really cater to their hard-left base.”
