I don't know. It seems to me that the media and the other candidates know full well that the military has and WOULD carry out what they are deeming "illegal" things such as killing families in a war.
As this argument shows...most people are all "for" it in the case of the Japanese in WW2.
I'd also like to point out that when Nixon had the military go into Cambodia during the Vietnam War it was also "illegal" and yet the military did it anyway.
And when Reagan bombed and killed Quadaffi's 15 month old daughter...the military knew damn well that was his family's house but didn't care.
So for Chris Wallace to sit there and tell Trump that the military would disobey him if he gave orders to take out terrorist's families was pretty disingenuous.
Yeah, theoretically I suppose they could say "no". But it's never happened to my knowledge.
And Wallace knew that. And so did Rubio onstage. And yet they all pretend to be horrified at Trump.
Ridiculous.
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