[lbo-talk] army to the left? or to the right?

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Dec 4 10:01:39 PST 2005


boddi satva wrote:


> You want soldiers to
>disobey legal orders because some outside group says something is
>illegal.
>
No, nobody ever said that. We want soldiers to disobey because what they are asked to do goes against their conscience, and we believe that soldiers have as much responsiblity as any one else to figure out whether the fight they are being asked to fight is a lie.


> Indiscriminate bombing and
>especially shelling of cities is what has always killed civilians in
>war and the US hasn't done that.
>
Perhaps you were asleep when "Shock and Awe" was going on, or when they razed Fallujah.


>It's not up to soldiers to decide whether the causus belli is
>adequate.
>
Yes it is. Existentially anyway.

Joanna



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