To be clear... they climbed back on the boat after the strike and were communicating with others to salvage the drugs.
Drug smuggling is not a capital offense.
Drug smuggling is not a military action.
The initial strike was not legal. The second strike, in even your reasoning here (communicating with others to "salvage the drugs") was also illegal - and murder ... not just murder, but even if (it's not) it was a military action, a war crime.
Do you have evidence the rest of us do not? ... please tell us how you know there were drugs on the boat, and where said boat was traveling. It would also be nice to know who was on the boat. Has any of this information been released?
When the POTUS is literally falling asleep on his feet, his face drooping like a stroke patient, is it really that surprising that he can't even maintain a coherent thought when talking about what comes next?
At this point, everyone who is ignoring his obvious unfitness for office should be mocked mercilessly.
Clowns, the lot of them.