Hegseth vows to “take no quarter”

[odanny]

This shitshow of a "war" is being run by the least competent people, all who labor to please the man who started it.

Part of Trump's popularity was he called out the Iraq war for it being the disaster that it was, now he is starting another and Trump voters are lining up to pledge their support, just like they did for Bush and Iraq.

These fools will never learn.

 

[Slade3200]

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.

Those tactics aren’t needed to win. It’s what separates the good guys from the bad guys

 

[Lockback]

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

We're still the good guys.
Having selective outrage is the leftist way of justifying hatred for America.

 

[Slade3200]

Sounds very much like an Islamic "value".

So us doing it would make us no better than them… right?

 

[rightwinger]

We're still the good guys.
Having selective outrage is the leftist way of justifying hatred for America.

No, afraid not

Torture, killing survivors, bombing a girls school and blaming Iran does not make us the good guys.

 

[braalian]

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.

There’s a good chance Hegseth didn’t even know what the expression really meant

 

[Meathead]

So us doing it would make us no better than them… right?

Doing what?

 

[Lockback]

No, afraid not

Torture, killing survivors, bombing a girls school and blaming Iran does not make us the good guys.

On the whole, we're the good guys. And it's not even close.
I'm so sorry you're too blind to see that.

 

[Winston]

Killing prisoners and not accepting surrender is an American value?

"No quarter"

It started at the Battle of Waxhaws, sometimes called Buford's Massacre. The Patriots under Buford began surrendering in mass but Tarleton was pinned underneath his horse and his Loyalist Troops proceeded to massacre the surrendering Continental Army soldiers. Despite not giving the order the Patriots used the term "Tarleton's quarter" as a huge propaganda weapon and recruiting tool. And throughout the war in the Carolina's, there was generally no quarter given.

Even at King's Mountain. Fergunson was shot multiple times, stripped of his clothing, robbed of his possessions, and urinated on by the Militiamen. His poor horse was taken by Old Roundtop, Colonel Cleveland, who had to weigh at least 300 pounds. They took prisoners but after a couple of days of marching West and eating some green corn, they had enough and started stringing the prisoners up, three at a time, at Biggerstaff Fields, the big oak that I used to could take you to but is now gone. Until one fateful thing happened that turned that moment around and sealed our fate in history.

"No quarter"

 

[Rocko]

No, afraid not

Torture, killing survivors, bombing a girls school and blaming Iran does not make us the good guys.

We didn’t intend to bomb a girls school. Come on RW.

 

[rightwinger]

We didn’t intend to bomb a girls school. Come on RW.

And instead of acknowledging a mistake of war, Trump immediately blames Iran. Then when told it was a Tomahawk missile, Trump claims it was an Iranian Tomahawk, even though they don’t have them

 

[rightwinger]

On the whole, we're the good guys. And it's not even close.
I'm so sorry you're too blind to see that.

Hegseth is the one who is blind to that

 

[Rocko]

And instead of acknowledging a mistake of war, Trump immediately blames Iran. Then when told it was a Tomahawk missile, Trump claims it was an Iranian Tomahawk, even though they don’t have them

Trump says a lot of things, but we didn’t intend to bomb a school. The difference between us and them is they bomb civilians and we do not.

 

[rightwinger]

Hegseth needs to realize he is not preaching to Fox viewers anymore

He is representing our country and our values to the world and more importantly to Iran.

If he wants to play the tough guy to Iran, he has to realise they will assume the same values in how to treat a US Soldier or Airman

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

And instead of acknowledging a mistake of war, Trump immediately blames Iran. Then when told it was a Tomahawk missile, Trump claims it was an Iranian Tomahawk, even though they don’t have them

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And regardless of the leftist blather, there has never been any proof of what your cult says.





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[rightwinger]

Trump says a lot of things, but we didn’t intend to bomb a school. The difference between us and them is they bomb civilians and we do not.

Like it or not, Trump represents the US to the world. What he says matters.

Other countries don’t smile and say…..That’s just Trump being Trump

Țhey look at Trumps official statements and conclude the US cant be trusted

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Like it or not, Trump represents the US to the world. What he says matters.

Other countries don’t smile and say…..That’s just Trump being Trump

Țhey look at Trumps official statements and conclude the US cant be trusted

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You assume.







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[MisterBeale]

When the USS Tripoli and the amphibious assault group arrive to seize Kharg island, should they take no prisoners in their assault?

Pentagon reportedly sending more warships and Marines to Middle East

The USS Tripoli, USS New Orleans, USS San Diego and the embarked 31st MEU are reportedly heading to the Middle East in support of Operation Epic Fury.

www.militarytimes.com

Mar 13, 2026
". . . The 31st MEU, meanwhile, includes a ground combat element, which features a battalion landing team — an infantry battalion and combat support elements — of around 1,100 Marines and sailors.

Also included is the aviation combat element, which features tilt-rotor and fixed-wing aircraft, transport and attack helicopters, ground support assets and air defense teams.

A combat logistics battalion with equipment and personnel capable of sustaining a MEU in austere environments for up to 15 days will also join the effort. This group includes medical, supply and explosive ordnance personnel, among others.

Requests for comment from the Pentagon and CENTCOM were not returned as of press time. The Navy told Military Times it would not be commenting.

The deployment of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group comes less than a year after a Military Times report found the readiness rate of the Navy’s amphibious assault ships had dropped to just 41% amid the Trump administration’s ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels in Latin America and the Caribbean.. . . "

 

[Rocko]

Like it or not, Trump represents the US to the world. What he says matters.

Other countries don’t smile and say…..That’s just Trump being Trump

Țhey look at Trumps official statements and conclude the US cant be trusted

I agree that Trump should choose his words more carefully, but we are not an evil country that intentionally kills civilians. If you think we’re the bad guys then I don’t know what to tell you.

 

[rightwinger]

I agree that Trump should choose his words more carefully, but we are not an evil country that intentionally kills civilians. If you think we’re the bad guys then I don’t know what to tell you.

What defines us to the world is our words and actions.

Hegseths rhetoric does not help our image
Killing survivors clinging to wreckage does not help
Torture does not help
Lying about destroying a girls school does not help