Every mischievous child thinks it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission. As they mature they learn. Trump is still a child.

This will end like DOGE's "5 things you did" email. Some AI tool will review for codewords like "Trump has small hands." And it will only irritate the prospective visitors, but no entry point customs official will know what to do with the volume of garbage it spews out.

The problem is not the order. It is the fact that 2 shipwrecked survivors were intentionally fired upon. "Kill them all" order or not, someone did "kill them all".

And if the bus running him over doesn't kill him and leaves him wounded, they will send in a steamroller to finish the job instead of an ambulance.

It is one thing to say our military is required to recognize and refuse to follow illegal orders. It is another thing altogether to implement that requirement during operations.

Doing the right thing is almost always the hardest thing to do.