Monday on MS NOW’s “The Final Phrase,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) mentioned the US was on the “mistaken facet” if survivors have been killed throughout a follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat within the Caribbean in September.
Host Lawrence O’Donnell mentioned, “What do you see on this? And this level: is it potential to commit a struggle crime if there isn’t a struggle? What can we name it when there isn’t a struggle?
Whitehouse mentioned, “Sure, the frequent phrase could be homicide.”
O’Donnell mentioned, “Is that what you see right here?”
Whitehouse mentioned, “I don’t know sufficient concerning the circumstances to, you recognize, make a remaining authorized willpower however for Pete’s sake, you’ve bought folks whose boat has been blown up. No matter they have been doing has now resulted in an explosion on the water and also you now have two survivors within the water. Even if you end up at struggle, an honest nation goes and rescues the survivors after which treats them as prisoners of struggle even in a struggle scenario. On this case, I imply, you recognize, to make a Hollywood reference, when the dangerous guys are machine gunning, the survivors within the water, it’s not People within the motion pictures, it’s the dangerous guys. And we’re on the mistaken, mistaken facet of this if we’re blowing up survivors within the water reasonably than attempting to ship rescue.”
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