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THE White House has nicknamed them the “Seditious Six”. In mid-November, half a dozen Democratic politicians – all military veterans – made a 60-second video reminding service members that they didn’t have to obey illegal orders. In response, Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, went absolutely tonto.
He even threatened one of the six, former Navy pilot and literal astronaut Mark Kelly, with a military tribunal. What was Kelly’s grievous offence? A dress code violation – wearing some of his boatload of medals in the wrong order.
Why did a simple statement of the facts – don’t do war crimes, lads – prompt such fury from the Trump administration? One possible answer came a few days later, when the Washington Post published a news story alleging that on 2 September the US military carried out a “double tap” strike on a Venezuelan boat suspected of carrying drugs. An initial strike destroyed the boat; a second strike killed two survivors. Yet the Pentagon’s own “Law of War Manual” states that “the shipwrecked… shall be respected and protected in all circumstances”.
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