Am I the only one who loves it when you leave your hair down in front of your eyes.
From Daily Kos:
[The troops] didn't ask to be shipped off to an unwinnable war under false pretenses. They're just doing their job.
When has "just doing their job" or "just following orders ever been a valid excuse for a soldier who has done something wrong? Do we really want to go that route? Do we want to say that that gets the soldier off the hook for anything they do wrong? Do we want to say that the soldiers convicted of torture at Abu Ghraib should be exonerated, because "They're juust doing their job"?
That's the bottom line, under no circumstances should "orders" ever exonerate a person from wrongdoing. Anyone just following their orders is, and must be held necessarily accountable for those actions, the same as the people who gave those orders.
Where did we start down this slippery path? And why is no one seeing it?
I do not support "the troops."
[The troops] didn't ask to be shipped off to an unwinnable war under false pretenses. They're just doing their job.
When has "just doing their job" or "just following orders ever been a valid excuse for a soldier who has done something wrong? Do we really want to go that route? Do we want to say that that gets the soldier off the hook for anything they do wrong? Do we want to say that the soldiers convicted of torture at Abu Ghraib should be exonerated, because "They're juust doing their job"?
That's the bottom line, under no circumstances should "orders" ever exonerate a person from wrongdoing. Anyone just following their orders is, and must be held necessarily accountable for those actions, the same as the people who gave those orders.
Where did we start down this slippery path? And why is no one seeing it?
I do not support "the troops."