The videos of carnage on the open seas have, by now, become almost routine: A small, fast-moving boat skips along the waves. Seconds later, it erupts into a ball of flame after munitions flying too quickly to be seen on camera strike their target. By the end of the short clip, huge clouds of smoke fill the screen. After one such air strike last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the four people on board—who were alleged drug runners—the way the United States once depicted al-Qaeda