Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Terrorism is indiscriminate violence intended to sow fear, thereby advancing political objectives. Drug trafficking is for-profit commerce. ‘Narco-terrorists’ is a self-contradictory neologism coined to turn crime (drug trafficking) into war, thereby enabling lethal kinetic stuff by the war secretary. … Channeling his inner Humpty Dumpty (”When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — nothing more nor less”), Donald Trump has decided that this hypothetical fentanyl from Venezuela might be a ‘chemical weapon’ (like mustard gas or sarin?). An odd one, that Americans pay for and ingest.” (11/17/25)