Maddow: Second Strike Story Is ‘a Disaster for this Generation of People Serving in the U.S. Military’

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MADDOW: “It feels like they bumbled themselves into a profoundly incoherent and illegal situation in which they decided the one true benefit they were getting out of all of it is that they were getting video game-style visuals to play on Fox News and put on TikTok, and they liked that. So now they have put this admiral, the commander of Southern Command, every senior officer in that command, and all of the service men and women who served there in the position of potentially being held liable for murder or war crimes until the statute of limitations on those matters runs. And I don’t even know what it would be. And by backing and bumbling and shambolically rambling themselves into this mess, I’m less worried about the fate of the bad guys who have gotten us here than I am about the good people who have been put in the way of this mess, from Admiral Bradley on down. And it’s a catastrophe. I think Pete Hegseth, it’s impossible to imagine that he survives this as secretary of defense. I think he must resign, and I think Republicans will ask for that, ultimately, once they investigate this. But this is a disaster for this generation of people serving in the United States military. And that is a tragedy more than a farce."