Rand Paul says Caribbean strikes ‘go against all of our tradition’

 https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5562496-rand-paul-criticizes-trump-caribbean-strikes/

“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” Vance wrote in an early September post on the social platform X, referencing a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration said killed 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers.

In response to the vice president’s post, Paul wrote in a post of his own later that day, “JD ‘I don’t give a s—‘ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.'”

“Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation?” the Kentucky senator added. “What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.”