10/19/2004 04:11:13 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

Jed Babbin has a follow-up on my opinions on the soldiers who disobeyed orders in Iraq last week. The money quote

Soldiers who serve — in peace, far less in war — can't be permitted to pick and choose among their orders to decide which they care to obey on any given day. The only question is whether the order was lawful. If the order doesn't require the soldier to commit a crime under the law of war or the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and if the order is within the authority of the officer who gives it, there's no choice in the matter. It is apparent that these soldiers have committed one of the most serious crimes any soldier can commit. On Monday, one report said that the Army was thinking of prosecuting only the leaders of the Tallil mutiny. That would be wrong. Terribly wrong.

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