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RHODES: “And the reality is, to echo something the admiral said, like, look, this is the definition of why they have laws of war, so that people who are in duress, people who are wounded, people who can pose literally no threat whatsoever. I mean, there’s no spin that can describe how people hanging on to a burning boat posed a threat to U.S. Military forces whatsoever. That’s physically impossible, right? And so, for them to spin this, I don’t know, they can talk all they want about the drugs that are on the boat, if that’s the case. But that doesn’t justify taking this strike against people that were clearly in duress. This is why we have those laws. Frankly, we have them in part because of humanitarian purposes, in part because we want our own troops, when they’re in harm’s way, to have the capacity to surrender without being killed while they’re trying to do so. And also, they’ve yet to describe a legal basis for the entire operation.”