Elected Democrats have every right, indeed, they have a duty, to conduct oversight over the president’s use of the military to defend the nation. But what they may not do is encourage service members to disobey orders they don’t like, and that is what Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Chris Deluzio (D-PA), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) did last week. It was a disgraceful and foolish thing to do.
In a one-minute and thirty-second video posted to social media, these elected Democrats, each of whom either served in the military or intelligence community, spoke “directly to the members of the military and intelligence community,” urging them to “refuse illegal orders.” They did this without identifying any
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