Anyone with a brain and eyes can see this was not lawful (not to discriminate against the current Trump administration)
SmolishPPman on
No shit, are we all finally caught up? How about we start taking some action you spineless bureaucrats
Unexpected_Gristle on
Who described the situation that way? Where is this info from?
greasemonkeycoot on
No shit Sherlock of course it’s against all the Geneva convention and current military laws. But here we are so riddled me this Batman how do we stop a corrupt administration when they write all the rules. It’s easy but not really because our forefathers never thought we would elect a criminal carpetbagger who lines his family’s pockets with our money while taking free trips on our dime and people cheer for him. Unfortunately we would have to have perfect proof he was the problem but 33 percent of blind idiots would push back because he, who I understand is our savior who also never attended church is the walking embodiment of trash.
el_coo_cooi on
Nothing about this is lawful
mycruelid on
Probably the most egregious killings of shipwrecked survivors in history was conducted by US and Australian aircraft and PT boats after the March 2, 1943 raid on a Japanese Army convoy of nearly 3000 soldiers in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. American gunships returned again and again to strafe and bomb men floating in the water more than 30 miles from the nearest shores in New Guinea, to be sure there was no chance of them making it to island battlefields to fight.
It’s one of the reasons why there were so many dead-enders in the South Pacific: the Japanese concluded that they would be killed if they surrendered. They didn’t just make that up out of *bushido*.
Yes, the Japanese did it first: they’d specifically shot at bomber crews who were parachuting and ditched. There had been the horrors of Bataan.
But if you want to know why shooting at shipwrecked survivors is so abhorrent in our Naval tradition, it’s partially because we feel so guilty about that slaughter.
I think it’s unlikely that Pete Hegseth has read “The War at the End of the World”, or biographies of LeMay or McArthur. If he did then he got the wrong message.
paxwells97 on
They were really foolish for propping up Mark Kelly and making him a martyr. Quickly becoming a potential presidential nominee.
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Anyone with a brain and eyes can see this was not lawful (not to discriminate against the current Trump administration)
No shit, are we all finally caught up? How about we start taking some action you spineless bureaucrats
Who described the situation that way? Where is this info from?
No shit Sherlock of course it’s against all the Geneva convention and current military laws. But here we are so riddled me this Batman how do we stop a corrupt administration when they write all the rules. It’s easy but not really because our forefathers never thought we would elect a criminal carpetbagger who lines his family’s pockets with our money while taking free trips on our dime and people cheer for him. Unfortunately we would have to have perfect proof he was the problem but 33 percent of blind idiots would push back because he, who I understand is our savior who also never attended church is the walking embodiment of trash.
Nothing about this is lawful
Probably the most egregious killings of shipwrecked survivors in history was conducted by US and Australian aircraft and PT boats after the March 2, 1943 raid on a Japanese Army convoy of nearly 3000 soldiers in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. American gunships returned again and again to strafe and bomb men floating in the water more than 30 miles from the nearest shores in New Guinea, to be sure there was no chance of them making it to island battlefields to fight.
It’s one of the reasons why there were so many dead-enders in the South Pacific: the Japanese concluded that they would be killed if they surrendered. They didn’t just make that up out of *bushido*.
Yes, the Japanese did it first: they’d specifically shot at bomber crews who were parachuting and ditched. There had been the horrors of Bataan.
But if you want to know why shooting at shipwrecked survivors is so abhorrent in our Naval tradition, it’s partially because we feel so guilty about that slaughter.
I think it’s unlikely that Pete Hegseth has read “The War at the End of the World”, or biographies of LeMay or McArthur. If he did then he got the wrong message.
They were really foolish for propping up Mark Kelly and making him a martyr. Quickly becoming a potential presidential nominee.