You murder our civilians, we'll murder yours. You torture our soldiers, we'll torture yours. etc etc

at increased risk, and he should know that

So he and his kronies can kill all the people they hate,
especially they want to take out those people who truly follow Christ's teachings
to "love one another, and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

It's republicon religious perversion up the wazoo,
a totally dark and evil self-fulfilling G.O.P. Fundy prophecy and plan of doom.

(AP) "Hegseth complains in his latest book that 'woke' generals and the leaders of the elite service academies have left the military dangerously weak and 'effeminate' by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. He says rank and file soldiers are undermined by 'feckless civilian leaders and foolish brass,' adding that 'the next commander in chief will need to clean house.'"

"'America’s white sons and daughters are walking away, and who can blame them,' he writes in 'The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.'"

"Like Trump, he espouses a traditional view of masculinity, writing that men are innately drawn to fight, compete and prove their strength...He calls the political left, 'America’s domestic enemies' and 'America-wreckers.'"

"Hegseth’s writing is contemptuous of the policies, laws and treaties that constrain warfighters on the battlefield, from restrictive rules of engagement to the Geneva Conventions, which he suggests are outdated against enemies who don’t abide by them....He has little patience for the moral questions surrounding war. Of the Americans who dropped nuclear bombs on Japan to end World War II, he writes, 'They won. Who cares.'"

https://apnews.com/article/who-is-pete-hegseth-trump-defense-secretary-2e2bdd16c8e90f5d037f763cfadbde94

...while denying it to colleges and universities, said was NECESSARY for the military academies.

The Case: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (Inc?) v. President & Fellows of Harvard College

Once you decide your chosen enemies have no rights, you are under no obligation to treat them with any humanity. And of course the current Administration equates strength with cruelty, so would have no such inhibitions anyway.

It exploits the glaring weakness of human consensus: if you don't like the rules, why just change them and do as you please. It might make foreign travel a bit dicey, as theoretically one could be arrested if he visited somewhere where there was a warrant out for him, but who would want to leave the great Paradise America will become anyway?

-- Mal

I think that's how they view it.

Guess he doesn't care if our soldiers face war crimes.