Narco boats and the Barbary Pirates, December 15, 2025.

Introduction.

So let us turn our attention to a most fascinating question, one that will challenge and or vex the usefulness of Christian worldview thinking.

Our president has ordered the blowing of

narco boats out of the water, that water being of the international kind, and this directive is being

implemented by Pete Hegeseth, our Secretary of War. Hegeseth is also part of our communion of churches,

the CREC. I'm not Pete Hegeset's pastor, but if I were, what kind of counsel would I give him on this?

Is this even okay?

A reasonable question.

So that we don't get distracted by other issues, I want to limit this discussion to conservative

believers.

By this, I mean that it needs to be limited to those who agree on the lawfulness and necessity

of lethal military action under certain circumstances.

And those circumstances are not made out of ideological wood. We are not leftists who are enthusiastically in favor of violence

from the air when Obama does it and violently against it if any Republican does. Neither are we pacifists,

and so our discussion and debate needs to revolve around the nature of those circumstances.

So what are they? This is because we would all agree that there is such a thing as

unlawful military action and that war crimes can occur. And so how can we tell what kind of action

this is? I think we can all agree that Rand Paul is not a liberal bedwetter and he sure doesn't

like what is happening. And so this means that reasonable questions

can be raised. Setting the parameters. Let's begin with a circumstance that I think we would all agree

would be unlawful. Suppose there was a major drug deal going down outside of St. Louis in a deserted

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