Mark Kelly Blasts Hegseth For Promising 'No Quarter' To Iranians With 1 Prescient Callback
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) was persecuted last year by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for reminding U.S. troops that they can defy unlawful orders.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday vowed during a Pentagon press briefing about the ongoing war on Iran that the U.S. would offer “no quarter” to its enemies, which Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) noted, in a rather prescient callback, would “be an illegal order.”
“‘No quarter’ isn’t some wanna be tough guy line — it means something,” Kelly wrote Friday on X. “An order to give no quarter would mean to take no prisoners and kill them instead. That would violate the law of armed conflict. It would be an illegal order.”
He continued, “It would also put American service members at greater risk.”
Hegseth said in his Friday briefing that “We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.”
Whether the former Fox News host knew it or not, giving the enemy “no quarter” means killing combatants even if they surrender. This is forbidden by most frameworks of international humanitarian law, the Hague and Geneva Conventions.
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