The grainy black-and-white videos are basically the same. They show a stripped-down, outboard-powered speedboat or a specially designed half-submersible vessel, its decks awash, underway.
Suspected drug-runners, the boats are cutting through the waters of the Caribbean or the eastern Pacific. In the blink of an eye, we watch as they are targeted by dooming crosshairs that soon erupt in a blinding explosion. The boat disappears, and the missile impact area is strewn with debris, scattered drugs and body parts.
