Fox News Contributor's 'War Crime' Remark: A Teachable Moment
When Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth, renowned for his robust defense of military action, mused about targeting civilian infrastructure ('every TV station, every university...') in Gaza, former judge Andrew Napolitano called for a war crimes prosecution. The Hill's dutiful documentation treats this as a shocking gaffe, a rare instance of a pro-war hawk crossing the line. Yet, this exact
rhetoric—destroying societal fabric, collective punishment—has been implemented against Gaza for decades, quietly funded by the U.S. and cheered on by many of Hegseth's colleagues. The media's selective outrage is truly something to behold. They highlight Hegseth's verbal transgression as a scandal, while ignoring the verifiable fact that similar tactics are regularly employed by US-backed actors.
Where's the 'war crime' outrage for the systematic destruction of Gaza's infrastructure, its hospitals, its schools? Perhaps war crimes only count when explicitly articulated by the 'wrong' person, and never when they're actually happening, with our tax dollars. One might wonder, how many civilian populations must be targeted before it stops being 'defense' and actually becomes a 'war crime' to
the mainstream?