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https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/11/16/pbs-claims-military-officers-are-lawyering-up-over-trumps-orders-but-whats-really-happening-n2196262Sometimes it is impossible to hate PBS enough.
President Trump's war on narco-terrorists and pressure campaign against Venezuelan autocrat Nicolas Maduro is decidedly unpopular in a lot of quarters. Sooner or later, an enterprising person in a profession that is supposed to search out the truth might get around to asking why there is such support for drug cartels and Chinese-influenced dictators among our "foreign policy" elites, but I'm not holding my breath.
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The drumbeat from the press is that these strikes are "illegal." For instance: Former GOP officials fear US strikes on alleged drug smugglers aren't legal - POLITICO. Former GOP officials, is there anything they don't know? And there is this one that carries Nazi connotations (because of course it does): ‘Just following orders’? Experts doubt legal memo shields troops from prosecution over Trump’s boat strikes | The Independent. In this one, a guy from a DC think tank claims that Trump hasn't established that the strikes are lawful (I guess he hasn't gone to the "lawful killing" judge and gotten permission). Another guy says that even if he has, future administrations may decide he was wrong and prosecute everyone involved, which is horse dung because that means no one ever gets a lawful order if someone in the future doesn't like the policy.
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Rosenblatt responds, "We are primarily getting calls, a lot of people who are tangentially involved. They aren't the people who are actually on the operations or are approving them." He goes on to say that people who are giving advice and opinions against the operation are feeling informal pressure to get on board.
The way I read that is that the military lawyers who ruled the roost in Iraq and Afghanistan, creating a maze of legal hoops that commanders had to jump through before engaging the enemy, are finding themselves sidelined. If the operators aren't concerned, then no one asking questions about the orders matters.
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