"Yeah, well, first of all, I think we should just hold our fire here a little bit and let's get on with an investigation. I think the Pentagon should do the investigation. They do a lot of these things in the past, and they're very good at getting the facts out with all the variables and complexities that are involved here."
"A couple of examples: if you have an operation on the ground and you have wounded soldiers as a result of it, of course, we don't kill those wounded soldiers because we're in control. Actually, the obligation is to take them prisoner and, after our wounded are treated, treat those wounded and evacuate them. But these are isolated events. Airstrikes done sometimes on the ground or sometimes at seaand there's nobody there in control of the situation."
"So if the target is people or it's a facility and both of those are important, the objective is to kill the people and destroy the facility. If the target is a boat and people, the mission is to destroy the boat and kill the people. In about 25% of these kinds of attacks, we do reattackeither if the facility was the objective, to destroy the rest of the facility; if the people"
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces accusations of war crimes after reports that a second strike killed survivors on an alleged drug-smuggling boat. A Pentagon investigation is recommended to determine facts amid conflicting claims and complex variables. Military rules distinguish controlled ground operations, where wounded must be taken prisoner and evacuated, from air or sea strikes without on-site control, where objectives include destroying people and facilities. When targets remain, follow-up attacks occur roughly 25% of the time to complete destruction. Public commentary includes caution against premature conclusions from people lacking full information.
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