Reply #18: with all due respect... [View All]

[JSJ]

...you're reciting the 'just following orders' defense given by the Nazis at the Nazi War Crimes Tribunal following WW2. That was rightfully disallowed by the judges hearing their cases. The result was the total abandonment of this defense by succeeding jurisdictions and hasn't been successfully argued since. The zeal by which this Administration rushes to demean and defenestrate this great doctrine and the World's Conventions governing warfare should tell us the true aims of our current goverment- but this 'official' behavior should at no time be allowed to lift the responsibility from 'the troops' for their own bad behavior. No man is an island, and no soldier is a law unto himself.