The horrific and apparently extrajudicial “double-tap” strikes on an alleged drug boat — killing survivors in the water — executed by the Trump Administration’s Pentagon under the command of Secretary Pete Hegseth are a stain of unforgivable darkness on the American soul.

This is not the rule of law; this is the sickening caprice of a junta, substituting the hallowed principles of military ethics for the bloodlust of a strongman’s fantasy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned against the undue influence of the military-industrial…
