General Discussion

Not to mention there's been a software program in place that provides point of intercept facial recognition of people already of the US radar for drug runners, black market smugglers, terrorists, or "enemy intelligence agents" for quite a few years now.
Successful maritime criminal and terrorist activity interdiction has been around for over a decade.

It's a sign of real moral perversion to just start escalating a tenuous situation by just murdering people suspected in wrong doing like it's some sort of action hero movie - or to approve of such actions.

When "evidence" is destroyed, how can you prove it was somehow justifiable to legal idiots, or was just gratuitous murder? That's why the Navy and Coast Guard used to bring back the contraband to be recorded, tested and traced to point of origin, and then used to determine the smuggler's points of contacts in the US.

But now. It's just a bunch of chest thumping, killing random people and destroying any possible evidence that could prove anything.