Alex Horton
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Yeah.
I mean, this certainly could fall under that.
Like I said, I'm not the adjudicator.
I will say the Department of Defense's manual has lines in there that says you should not follow an order that is illegal.
And the example it gives is firing on someone that is shipwrecked.
It just so happens that what we're talking about is an example.
But then it just goes back to were they shipwrecked or were they not?
Yes, to put him on active duty, to try him on military court, yes.
To say he has incited the military and he needs to come back and face discipline under military law.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, the message they delivered was, you know, there is a responsibility for everyone to follow lawful orders and when the time comes for an illegal order to disobey it.
And that's not a controversy.
I mean, it is because it's political and these are Democrats.
This is just the age we live in.
But, you know, when you strip all that away, that is what you expect U.S.
service members to do.
It's hard to say what the connective tissue is between these missions and the larger military buildup.
Because as I mentioned, 99.9% of the forces that are in the Caribbean are not striking the boats.
This is done by a very small, select, elite crew of targeters and intelligence operatives.
So then it becomes, okay, well, if they're not doing anything about the boats, or maybe they're supporting it in some ways, like intel or whatever...