Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds

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4. Here is the rub

While I agree that it's clear this administration is violating the law by gutting the very organization meant to prevent civilian deaths, my greater concern is that it's needed at all.

I mean we need a program to tell our military not to kill innocent civilians?!?

If we need people to tell our military to not slaughter innocent people, to not bomb a school full of children, we should ask ourselves what the fuck are we teaching people in these military training schools.

Reminder that right now, we are using our military to act as judge, jury and executioner on boats out to sea, with zero oversight or any word from Congress.
Implicit in that point is that our military members seem perfectly happy to act as Judge Dredd of the open seas and if you think it's a giant leap of faith to go from that to people here in the US, you would be wrong.