Re: self censorship
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"The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.
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I absolutely disagree with this view. Part of my objection is practical, which is to say that permitting moral choice among combat soldiers will vastly increase our own casualties. And I also disagree because the statement implicitly assumes the immorality of this war, and thus that our soldiers are doing just that. I suspect that a substantial portion of the military is in favor of the war. Go read Ilario Pantano's "Warlord" for a rather different picture than you'll get from the LA times.
I do think the other observation (that it's hypocritical to support the troops but oppose the war) has some force.
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