Esquire argues that the administration's Caribbean boat strikes, carried out as an antidrug strategy, have accomplished nothing, quoting a Washington Post report of a DEA assessment finding no effect on cocaine's U.S. supply or price and that traffickers now use larger boats, coastlines, and aircraft to evade U.S. forces. The piece faults the killings of fishermen claimed without evidence as couriers, and quotes Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell defending Operation Southern Spear as designed to disrupt trafficking networks.