Which brings us to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and the now-infamous \u201cKill Them All\u201d directive. The mainstream American commentariat is working overtime to portray his alleged order \u2014 to eliminate the two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a bombed Caribbean vessel \u2014 as a shocking departure from established norms. But the truth is far less flattering. The Caribbean strike is not a fracture in American conduct. It is the logical expression of it. It is not an aberration. It is a revelation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Which brings us to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and the now-infamous \u201cKill Them All\u201d directive. The mainstream American commentariat is working overtime to portray his alleged order \u2014 to eliminate the two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a bombed Caribbean vessel \u2014 as a shocking departure from established norms. But the truth is far… Read More »‘Kill them all’: Pete Hegseth’s order is a feature of America’s cowboy justice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":77678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}