War on Terror Oddity – Narcoterrorists Sent Back Home

Image above:

South entrance- Port Townsend Ship Canal

An old photo I took. Symbol of a significant Homeland Security/CBP/Border Patrol presence at Port Angeles that came together more than a decade ago.

In The News

US releasing survivors of Caribbean drug boat strike to their home countries

by: Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, CNN

Oct 18, 2025

“The US is releasing the two survivors of Thursday’s military strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia, President Donald Trump said Saturday.”

United States releasing survivors of latest airstrike in the Caribbean currently held by the Navy

Nicholas Slayton – Task & Purpose

Oct 18, 2025

KOMO News:

Trump: Survivors of strike on drug-carrying vessel to be sent back to their home countries

by JESSICA A. BOTELHO – The National News Desk

October 18, 2025

From comments:

“So these terrorists were dangerous enough to launch a missile and try to execute them but not dangerous enough to lock up in our own jails? Since when do we trust Colombia and Ecuador so much?”

Narcoterrorists on Thursday – Sent Back Home On Saturday?

The US has decades of GWOT experience. In past decades, were captured terrorists promptly released to their home countries?

Did the advantage of designating terrorist organizations in Iraq and Afghanistan allow those undeclared wars to be prevented, won or shut down?

Drug cartels were designated as terrorist organizations back on Feb 20, 2025.

Real newspeople may ask:

Is Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security completely irrelevant here?

Has the US Dept. of Homeland Security ever created any shortage of cartel product anywhere in the US?

If the CIA (est 1947) serves as an advantage to the US, why does the Department of Defense have such a poor record of winning undeclared wars going back to 1949, the year DOD was established?

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe: