One of the most radical -- and reprehensible -- Obama policies was John Brennan's CIA drone assassination program based on the claimed right to eradicate anyone remotely suspected of terrorist ties: all with no process or evidentiary burden of any kind. Most of the time, they had no idea who they were killing, and we know they murdered large numbers of innocent people in multiple countries (including ones at wedding parties and funerals). At least the Obama officials had the excuse -- frivolous though it was -- of acting under the authority of the "War on Terror." There is not even an arguable legal basis for blowing up small boats in international waters, which Trump and Hegseth have been doing for a year by invoking some vague "War on Drugs" theory. If you suspect these boats carry drugs, they're so easy to interdict with the Coast Guard (as @RandPaul notes, the Coast Guard often finds no drugs on boats they strongly suspect of carrying them). I'm sure it's exciting for many to watch these grainy images of the mighty US military blowing up small boats and killing people, even when it turns out they're just ordinary fisherman. It provides some vicarious sense of power for those who feel powerless. But it's precisely this king of ongoing arrogant assertion of unilateral, unlimited global police power that alienates so much of the world (and has had literally no effect on drug demand or availability inside the US).