Hegseth vows to “take no quarter”

[rightwinger]

Senator Mark Kelly calls out Sec of Defense Hegseth for claiming US will take no quarter against Iran.

Sounds like an unlawful order.

Mark Kelly rebukes Pete Hegseth over war language: 'Should know better'

Hegseth said the U.S. will "keep pressing, we will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy."

www.newsweek.com

No quarter" means refusing to show mercy, spare lives, or take prisoners during conflict.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross database of international humanitarian law, "the prohibition on declaring that no quarter will be given is a long-standing rule of customary international law already recognized in the Lieber Code, the Brussels Declaration and the Oxford Manual and codified in the Hague Regulations."

Hegseth did not declare "no quarter" as a direct order to the U.S. military during the press conference. Giving that order is considered a war crime under modern international law.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I don't see the issue here. If you're going to war you had better go to win it.

 

[rightwinger]

I don't see the issue here. If you're going to war you had better go to win it.

Killing prisoners and not accepting surrender is an American value?

 

[Lockback]

"Look at me! I'm crying for attention! I'm an attention whore, trying desperately to stay relevant!"

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Killing prisoners and not accepting surrender is an American value?

Do you want to win or lose? Your argument is typical western naivete. You think if we hit them with kid gloves they'll reciprocate. They won't. Those people will be as savage as they need to in order to win, so you either play by their rules or fight with one hand tied behind your back, which is what we kept doing in Afghanistan and Iraq. How did that turn out?

Do it to win or don't do it at all.

 

[Lockback]

Do you want to win or lose? Your argument is typical western naivete. You think if we hit them with kid gloves they'll reciprocate. They won't. Those people will be as savage as they need to in order to win, so you either play by their rules or fight with one hand tied behind your back, which is what we kept doing in Afghanistan and Iraq. How did that turn out?

Do it to win or don't do it at all.

Couldn't have said it better myself. So I won't.

 

[Meathead]

Killing prisoners and not accepting surrender is an American value?

Sounds very much like an Islamic "value".

 

[rightwinger]

Do you want to win or lose? Your argument is typical western naivete. You think if we hit them with kid gloves they'll reciprocate. They won't. Those people will be as savage as they need to in order to win, so you either play by their rules or fight with one hand tied behind your back, which is what we kept doing in Afghanistan and Iraq. How did that turn out.

Do it to win or don't do it at all.

I am sorry..
But I remember when the US used to be the good guys
I remember when we demonised the tactics of the Nazis and Japanese in how they treated prisoners. I remember when we had values and still won wars.

Those values do not include slaughtering people clinging to a sinking boat, using torture, attacking a girls school and now killing prisoners

 

[Meathead]

I am sorry..
But I remember when the US used to be the good guys
I remember when we demonised the tactics of the Nazis and Japanese in how they treated prisoners. I remember when we had values and still won wars.

Those values do not include slaughtering people clinging to a sinking boat, using torture, attacking a girls school and now killing prisoners

Mai Lai?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Killing prisoners and not accepting surrender is an American value?

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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ What you assumed.




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[1srelluc]

Sounds very much like an Islamic "value".

Good, it's something they will understand.

 

[Meathead]

I am sorry..
But I remember when the US used to be the good guys
I remember when we demonised the tactics of the Nazis and Japanese in how they treated prisoners. I remember when we had values and still won wars.

Those values do not include slaughtering people clinging to a sinking boat, using torture, attacking a girls school and now killing prisoners

 

[Rocko]

Senator Mark Kelly calls out Sec of Defense Hegseth for claiming US will take no quarter against Iran.

Sounds like an unlawful order.

Mark Kelly rebukes Pete Hegseth over war language: 'Should know better'

Hegseth said the U.S. will "keep pressing, we will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy."

www.newsweek.com

No quarter" means refusing to show mercy, spare lives, or take prisoners during conflict.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross database of international humanitarian law, "the prohibition on declaring that no quarter will be given is a long-standing rule of customary international law already recognized in the Lieber Code, the Brussels Declaration and the Oxford Manual and codified in the Hague Regulations."

Hegseth did not declare "no quarter" as a direct order to the U.S. military during the press conference. Giving that order is considered a war crime under modern international law.

This is contrary to what the commander in chief is saying.

 

[eagle1462010]

Killing prisoners and not accepting surrender is an American value?

Tell me how a B2 bomber takes prisoners

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I am sorry..
But I remember when the US used to be the good guys
I remember when we demonised the tactics of the Nazis and Japanese in how they treated prisoners. I remember when we had values and still won wars.

Those values do not include slaughtering people clinging to a sinking boat, using torture, attacking a girls school and now killing prisoners

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I remember when the US was full of people who could use their own brain and didn't need their TV to tell them what to believe.





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[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I am sorry..
But I remember when the US used to be the good guys

I didn't realize that ceased to be the case. Maybe the problem is you.

I remember when we demonised the tactics of the Nazis and Japanese in how they treated prisoners. I remember when we had values and still won wars.

Like we won Vietnam? How about how we treated the Japanese-Americans during WWII? Aren't we the only ones to ever drop nukes in order to end a war?

Those values do not include slaughtering people clinging to a sinking boat, using torture,

Well, maybe they should, because that's exactly what they do to us and will do regardless of how we treat them. Maybe you'd like a word with the surviving Israelis from October 7th or captured American soldiers in Afghanistan about your pious civility. Those people will be as brutal as they need in order to win. You want to fight politically correct and think that somehow makes you superior, when in fact, it just makes you stupid. Force is the only language those people understand and I'm glad we have someone at the Pentagon who finally recognizes that.

attacking a girls school

Are you implying we did that on purpose?

and now killing prisoners

Servants of a brutal regime that's massacred untold tens of thousands of their own people.

Yes, we should kill them.

 

[eagle1462010]

I am sorry..
But I remember when the US used to be the good guys
I remember when we demonised the tactics of the Nazis and Japanese in how they treated prisoners. I remember when we had values and still won wars.

Those values do not include slaughtering people clinging to a sinking boat, using torture, attacking a girls school and now killing prisoners

I remember my father fought to win wars. The Greatest Generation.

Now politicians dont let us win. ROEs from hell.

We need total War again

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I remember my father fought to win wars. The Greatest Generation.

Now politicians dont let us win. ROEs from hell.

We need total War again

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I see the action in Iran as similar to good parenting -- demanding discipline from a bad child.

Example -- the "media" is trying to tell us that the US Military has "destroyed" Kharg Island, where the reality is that the US Military has removed their military ability. Rotten kid threatened to kill the kitten, so you take away all the weapons that the kid has. The Oil infrastructure is still in place on the island, as is the population.

Smart fighting.

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[Zincwarrior]

Senator Mark Kelly calls out Sec of Defense Hegseth for claiming US will take no quarter against Iran.

Sounds like an unlawful order.

Mark Kelly rebukes Pete Hegseth over war language: 'Should know better'

Hegseth said the U.S. will "keep pressing, we will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy."

www.newsweek.com

No quarter" means refusing to show mercy, spare lives, or take prisonershegseth during conflict.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross database of international humanitarian law, "the prohibition on declaring that no quarter will be given is a long-standing rule of customary international law already recognized in the Lieber Code, the Brussels Declaration and the Oxford Manual and codified in the Hague Regulations."

Hegseth did not declare "no quarter" as a direct order to the U.S. military during the press conference. Giving that order is considered a war crime under modern international law.

No, Hegseth was just explaining that he hates loose change.

 

[Rawley]

Killing prisoners and not accepting surrender is an American value?

We're not taking any prisoners. They have not surrendered.