No?
Hmm.
So I guess the legal obligation they undertake is different.
Wojtek points out that military law demands soldiers disobey illegal orders. Now, if you can make the case that the orders to fight in Iraq are all illegal, you would have a case for soldiers' deserting. Except you can't because they're not illegal.
By the way, what soldiers do is always immoral. It's difficult for me to imagine a "moral" artillery barrage.
boddi
On 11/28/05, SergioL652 at aol.com <SergioL652 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/28/2005 3:47:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> lbo.boddi at gmail.com writes:
> You're just wrong. Soldiers have SWORN AN OATH TO THE GOVERNMENT OF
> THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Do you people not understand this? Are
> you just incapable of dealing with this? Soldiers swear an oath
> specifically NOT to sustitute their own judgement for the orders of
> their government. THAT is why we trust them with all those weapons.
> Should they go around saying: "You know I swore an oath to follow
> orders, but the Arab League (or the Mormon church, or the Aryan
> Nations, or Pat Robertson, or the Italian Communist Party or whoever)
> thinks it's a bad idea so screw you" ?
>
> Soldiers swear the same oath that civilian government employees (including
> the President of the United States) swear. It says that you will protect
> and defend the Constitution of the United States and to perform the duties
> of your office to the best of your abilities. I made the same oath and I
> don't take it to mean that I will do whatever I am told.
>
> Sergio
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