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stollen

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Wed Dec 3, 2025, 07:56 AM Wednesday

Is there anyone here connected to media? [View all]

I used to live in the Philippines and Okinawa, where I saw plenty of small private fishing boats off the coasts of these countries. I'd watch the crew haul in their nets to see what was caught...mostly crustacean odds/ends and seaweed.

Media, I'd like answers to these questions:

Question 1: Why doesn't our navy, with all its technology, know the difference between a drug cartel and a group of village fishermen trying to eek out a living?

Question 2: Why are we using expensive missiles and SEAL Team Six (or any SEAL team) to take out a village's outboard motorboat and its passengers?

Question 3: When Obama was president, he used SEAL Team Six to take out Osama Bin Laden. If we can't find a better use for these extensively/expensively trained elite forces, shouldn't they be disbanded so we can use the money to refinance the health organizations designed to help anyone in our country associated with PTSD from war time experiences? Trump had them dismantled.

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