There is an increasing apprehension among service members that they may be asked to carry out an illegal order, amid reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered troops to “kill everybody” in a boat strike in September.
The concerns, reflected in an uptick in calls to the Orders Project — which provides free legal advice to military personnel — come from the likes of staff officers involved in planning the strikes on supposed drug-carrying boats and those in charge of designating those on the vessels as a threat in order to carry out such attacks.
Even as a reported Justice Department classified memo from this summer preemptively argued that U.S. troops involved in the strikes would not be in legal jeopardy, service members appear far more concerned than usual that the U.S. military may be opening them up to legal harm, according to Frank Rosenblatt, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, which runs the Orders Project.
But there was also a whole chain of people that had to carry out those illegal orders. A whole chain of people who have the responsibility to deny carrying out illegal orders.
Yep, and I’m certain some of them knew exactly what an obvious illegal order this was. You don’t do follow-up strikes on enemies who are disabled and out of the fight. That is basic, basic shit. It’s cruel, unnecessary, and dishonorable. That’s gang and terrorist shit and we’re supposed to be better than our enemies about this stuff or what’s the point.
They should all be arrested
Yep
Oh, for sure, try them all, but especially Pete Hegseth.