Ask a Naval Professional!
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I wouldn’t quite call Bryan McGrath a friend of the blog; he’s a friendly acquaintance that I used to blog with at Information Dissemination and who is now best described as a Never Trump Republican who is nevertheless more conservative on a number of issues that commenters here are typically comfortable with. However, as a retired professional naval officer his latest post on the Venezuela strikes may be worth your while.
The bottom line for me at this point is: with the information, training, and education I have at my disposal, I would have been unable to carry out these missions had I been assigned them, as I do not believe the orders to destroy these boats to be lawful. Had I been confronted with this dilemma, I would have resigned. It is my fervent hope that ADM Holsey did just this, and I hope that he has a chance to explain his action.
As I have provided above a thumbnail of both the arguments for and against these activities, I will concentrate moving forward on other arguments against, and I will warn readers in advance that they are not wholly detached from my utter disdain for and mistrust of this President. But—nor are they wholly derived therefrom.
Read the rest, as they say.