Bart,
On Monday (issue 1070) you said:
> "But if the people giving the orders are corrupt
oilmen who stole their way into power,
> and their decisions are not made with
good intentions, you still can't blame the soldier
> for showing up and doing his duty."
I have to take a slight exception to that.
The Nuremberg Trials at the end of WWII
established that; "I was just following
orders." is no defense at all.
Every soldier should examine where their
orders come from.
Every soldier should decide if their acts
are moral and just.
Lee P
Lee, I might be wrong, but I think you just called for every American
soldier
to be tried for war crimes in Iraq. If so, I can't go along
with that.
There's a difference between toppling a government and systematically
herding
6 million civilians into railroad cars and shipping them to extermination
camps.
In my opinion, "orders" depends on what the orders are.