Worse yet for the sub, the Olympic managed to turn at a right angle and ram the U-103, hitting it just aft of the conning tower, killing nine of its crew. All of these arguments apply with equal force to the four incidents from the past I’ve cited: the S.S. Olympic, the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the killing of Osama Bin Laden, and the drone strikes by the Obama administration. The abandonment of German sailors to die of exposure after their ship sank; the slaughter of defenseless Japanese soldiers and sailors in the Bismarck Sea; the extrajudicial killing of Osama Bin Laden after we first treated him as subject to our criminal justice system with all its safeguards of the rights of the accused; and the remote-control murder of four thousand people by a U.S. president who flippantly remarked on the slaughter he ordered, including more than two dozen “double tap” strikes, with a huge toll in innocent civilians and medical personnel responding to survivors at the scene of the first strike.
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Published at: 2026-01-24 19:59:00
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