ARLINGTON, VADescribing the incident as a split-second operational judgment made under rapidly evolving conditions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invoked the fog of war Thursday to explain why he urinated inside a Pentagon break room refrigerator. In the heat of the moment, youve got to make a decision, and sometimes that decision is imperfect, said Hegseth, arguing that under the intense pressure of warfare it can be nearly impossible to distinguish between a porcelain urinal and a white refrigerator. Civilians can never understand what its like to be in the thick of it. On the ground, you dont have time to dilly-dally. You just unzip and go. When youre back home, its easy to have all these high-minded ideals about the rules of combat, but the truth is, when you find yourself totally blasted and face-to-face with a brightly lit shelf of individually wrapped string cheeses, you dont have the luxury of calculating whether theres time to run to the bathroom or even open a window. Throw around terms like war criminal or coworkers insulin-ruiner all you want, but I acted with significant restraint by urinating in the vegetable crisper when, by all accounts, I would have been totally justified in fully dousing every inch of the fridge in my piss. Asked for comment, President Donald Trump defended Hegseths actions and appeared to imply that the Pentagon custodian who filed the initial complaint should be investigated for treason.The post Pete Hegseth Invokes Fog Of War After Pissing In Break Room Refrigerator appeared first on The Onion.