Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling
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Oh, absolutely.
One of the big things that I think we're experiencing now is an institutional attack on the U.S.
military, just like there's been attacks on other government institutions.
not a lawyer but i will tell you that if a senior official urged someone else a military person to conduct such a strike then we are morally bound to ask additional questions that any democracy should be asking were these unlawful orders it appears they were were they issued or were they implied we don't know that that's part of an investigation did the service member feel pressured
to act unlawfully.
We don't know that either.
Were there the attempts to suppress the supporting?
Was additional guidance provided?
These aren't political questions, Joe.
These are constitutional ones, legal ones, and moral injury ones.
Soldiers or anyone who is asked to pull a trigger in this kind of situation, not only does it illegally based on what they've been taught, but it also creates, and the reason we have these rules is to avoid moral injury for those individuals.
The reason we have these rules is to avoid moral injury for those individuals.
And doing any of this, along with some of the other things that we have watched happen, the Secretary of Defense disparaging legal oversight, sidelining JAG officers, eliminating the press to report on such actions, or treat accountability for such actions as an enemy, they do more than risk
unlawful actions, they weaken the moral foundation that makes our military so great.
Here it is.
Because a military that abandons abiding by these kinds of laws, Geneva Conventions, law of land warfare, they cease to be American.
And a military that fails to investigate serious allegations of this kind of complex invites tragedy at the strategic, the moral, and the human domain.
The one other point I'd make is last night I saw the president say, oh, Pete told me it was okay that he didn't conduct a second strike.
Well, that's easily disprovable because if there were any weapons used against these boats, they were filmed.
They have to be filmed because it's a laser paint of the ship.
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