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These particular drugs were probably headed to Trinidad or some other country in the Caribbean,

at which point they just contribute to the instability these countries are facing.

So the president's been very clear that he's going to use the full power of America

and the full might of the United States to take on and eradicate these drug cartels,

no matter where they're operating from and no matter how long they've been able to act with impunity.

Those days are over.

Those days are over.

That was Secretary of State Marco Rubio talking about the strike off the Venezuelan coast,

taking out that Venezuelan drug running boat.

This is Griff Jenkins, your humble DC correspondent

filling in for Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show. And we are so lucky right now to have my

colleague, my friend, and actually we share an office next to each other, correspondent, Lucas Tomlinson,

joining us to talk a little bit about this. And Lucas, I don't think our listeners really know what I know about you, which is not only did you graduate from the Naval Academy,

not only did you honorably serve our country in the Navy for six years, but you actually at one point were deployed on a missile-guided frigate in the Caribbean on a drug interdiction mission. Talk to us. I sure was. First of all, it's great to join you, Griff. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, in 2003, we did a counter-drug deployment to the Caribbean. Went through the Panama Canal, just like some of these warships that we're seeing sent by the trunk administration. You saw the USS Lake Erie, the guided missile cruiser, crossing the ditch, as they call it, the Panama Canal.

A lot has changed, I'll say, between that deployment back in 2003 and today.

Back then, we had a law enforcement detachment on board, and the idea was to disable these go- fast or speedboats, the drug boats carrying cocaine

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