Pete Hegseth

It's just patently ridiculous.

We are tracking them.

We are killing them.

And we will keep killing them so long as they are poisoning our people with narcotics so lethal that they're tantamount to chemical weapons.

We fight to win.

We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy.

We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement.

We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country.

No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.

Just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.

Now, the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility.

So I said, I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting all the information and make sure it's the right strike.

That was September 2nd.

There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that, building that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information.

I watched that first strike live.

As you can imagine, the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do.

So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs.

So I moved on to my next meeting.

A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made the, which he had the complete authority to do.

And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.