not for nothing but McCarthy explicitly calls the strikes illegal from the get-go. He doesn't really think this is technically a war crime, because the entire operation was just a regular crime from the start
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The wild part is they’re mad about killing the two survivors and not the fact of the initial strike in the first place
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Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
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It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
