[Vision2020] 126th Engineer Company to Depart On/About September 17th

[Andreas Schou]

Dave --

I'm suggesting that soldiers don't get to exercise their independent
legal judgment as to whether a conflict is legal, when every
applicable civilian authority has determined it to be legitimate (if
unwise, or immoral). Our military isn't permitted to act autonomously,
because, historically, militaries that act autonomously turn their
guns on their citizens. If they want to challenge the legality of the
war, the appropriate place to do so is the civilian courts. If they
want to challenge the morality or wisdom of the war, the appropriate
place to do so is the press.

They don't get to choose whether or not to go to war; they don't get
to choose whom they shoot at, or why. There are very specific
conditions under which soldiers are permitted to defy an unlawful
order; usually, when waiting and going about it a different way is
going to kill a civilian. This isn't one of them.

-- ACS