been thinking today about how the Administration has changed the meaning of "narco-terrorism," with the aim of stretching the law of war from soldiers to "unlawful combatants" to dudes in a boat who are civilians by any reasonable code of military justice.
They better hope it sticks, because the difference between what they say it means and what it used to mean is the difference between a legitimate military engagement and a war crime.
been thinking today about how the Administration has changed the meaning of "narco-terrorism," with the aim of stretching the law of war from soldiers to "unlawful combatants" to dudes in a boat who are civilians by any reasonable code of military justice.
https://everyfingday.substack.com/p/the-lexicon-and-the-law?r=5j6wij
Yes...they just took the word and made it mean something else.
They better hope it sticks, because the difference between what they say it means and what it used to mean is the difference between a legitimate military engagement and a war crime.