Friday, November 22, 2024

The next administration (one in a series)

Parker Yesko's article, Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes, is up on The New Yorker's website. "A second Trump Administration could give impunity to American soldiers who commit atrocities." Excerpt:

As for [Pete] Hegseth, if he manages to win Senate confirmation, he will likely lead the Department of Defense according to principles that he outlines in his best-selling book, “The War on Warriors,” published in June. In it, he rails against “the Left’s antiwarrior radicalism”; pushes for “more lethality, less lawyers”; and suggests that American soldiers could disregard international humanitarian laws altogether. “Our boys should not fight by rules written by dignified men in mahogany rooms eighty years ago,” Hegseth writes. “America should fight by its own rules.”

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