A vast moat to protect us as long as we hold it . . . [a] protective shield for all of the Americas and all of the free lands of the Pacific Ocean area, a chain of islands extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas held by us and our free allies, from this island chain, we can . . . prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific.
Kelly references General MacArthur's historical perspective on U.S. defense strategy in the Pacific.
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And in response to that, Donald Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged, I should be prosecuted.
Secretary Hegseth's tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President's posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death.
They had a very hard time explaining to us ... the legal rationale for doing this and the constitutionality of doing it.
I think it's important to say that there is nothing more American than standing up for the Constitution, that's what we were doing. President didn't like it, so now he calls for us to be hanged.
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