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Rules of war

It has become increasingly clear that this administration is embarrassing our country on a daily basis. The recent Washington Post article reported that the secretary of Defense (or War, as Pete Hegseth has wanted it to be called) gave orders to “kill everybody” in this boat on Sept. 2.

It’s reported that two men survived the first attack and were clinging to the side of the boat. Another strike was authorized. The administration and the secretary claim that they were well within the law to conduct these attacks. According to international law and rules of war, you offer quarters to noncombatants when they are unable to continue to fight.

The very next month (October), Adm. Alvin Holsey, the head of the U.S. Southern Command,

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