Using your authority to order others killed is a very sobering responsibility. And I guess I don't see the graveness I would expect in the administration's actions.
It's a modern day Roman colosseum event. Human lives are throwaway entertainment, and the more you kill, the more your political base gets fired up and outright overjoyed. From a political standpoint, there's no longer any consequence for killing small time nobodies with no name. It's only beneficial for a politician. And this phenomenon is spreading to more and more countries.
But those same people who are celebrating these killings, the same people who are ordering killings for their political gain, will say "It's time we come together to condemn political violence" when a small guy strikes someone else. It's interesting.
There were reports of Miller asking whether the administration could simply blow up boats that were presumably bringing illegal immigrants to the US during the first Trump admin. Now they are doing it but with the cover of "these are drug traffickers."
Of course I'm not naive enough to expect anybody outside of a few noble souls to actually disobey orders when push comes to shove, but for years people in and around the military have assured me that officers do training to prepare for rejecting illegal orders, and so I shouldn't worry.
And these orders seem pretty prima facie blatantly illegal.