Discussion on Military Strategy and Ethics

'Cause Pete Hegseth came in and said, "We won't have to do that.

The Israelis have told me that they're going to kill Khamenei on day

one."

Nobody in the Pentagon said, "Hey, we can't do this," 'cause

if they straight, if

they close the Strait of Hormuz, there's no way we're gonna be able to stop

them

from unclosing it. You know?

Everybody in the Pentagon said that.

Yeah. Then why would, why did we do it?

Because Pete Hegseth came in and said, "We won't have to do that.

The Israelis have told me that they're going to kill Khamenei on day

one."

Uh-

"We're gonna h- come in with the most massive air power

ever seen.

It is because we wanna hit 1,000 points on the ground a day-

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... for a period of time to create the

impression of American invincibility,

and the Iranians quit, and that way we don't have to do any of this."

Just so you understand, one of those thousand points

was a girls' school.

It should never have been struck.

Yeah, I know.

We struck hospitals, the whole thing.

This is the most criminally minded war plan in the

history of war plans.

Is it criminal or stupid, or both?

Criminal. When you're the Secretary of Defense-

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... and you're required by... You know, we have a Law of Warfare Act.

If you violate the Geneva Conventions grossly, there's a death penalty.

Hegseth came in and said, "I'm doing away with all the rules.

I'm disbanding that unit. We're gonna disregard the Law of Warfare

manual.

We want increased lethality." And so when he said, "We're going to put 1,000

bombs on 1,000 targets a day," he was saying, "I don't care

what you kill. We kill things and break things," he said.

"That's what we do."

Ugh.

There was intent, criminal intent, from the very start.

So this was criminal and incompetent.

What I don't understand is why the JCS didn't resign en masse.

This is a leadership failure on the part of the most senior military officers, and

now they're in a situation where they're gonna have to try and do something they

know they can't do. If we send Marines across the beach-

Yeah

... and they die, people need to go to jail.