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This Friday, retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling responded to 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump having boasted at an Iowa campaign rally a day earlier that he would “bomb the s*** out of ISIS” if he became president.
“If he persisted in saying ‘bomb it,’ I think what you would eventually have in the military across the board is mass resignations,” Hertling claimed during an interview with CNN host Carol Costello. “And that’s a tough stance to take, Carol, but truthfully, that’s what would occur.”
His point was that it would be immoral and illegal for the military to just randomly bomb the Middle East in the hope of wiping out terrorists. Such a move would potentially violate the Geneva Conventions, as well as lead to the deaths of millions of innocent men, women and children.
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