Why couldn't soldiers be commanded to sneak to some location where the enemy
is hiding, and kill them on arrival?
The enemy is troops and military and paramilitar personnel. Stealth in combat is not the same thing as "stealth" in murder. Killing is killing - and I would point out that the Hebrew of the Ten Commandments does not say "Thou shalt not kill". It says "Thous shall not commit murder".
That would be murder.
You make no example of "murder", merely pick a nit about military tactics.
Are you saying
a Baha'i should refuse to cooperate then, but could otherwise kill?
A Baha`i is called upon to do whatever he can FOLLOWING THE LAW to avoid combatant service. The "law" in this instance says not that he MUST avoid military service, it says he SHOULD avoid military service. That's a big difference.
I don't
think such a scenario is all that rare, and not enough to say that a soldier
doesn't murder, using the definition you cite.
"Murder" is murder. A soldier does not do that other than by his personal choice. An order to commit murder is not a legal order in the US military.
Would you consider that a policeman "murders"? There is no injunction in the Faith about NOT serving as a policeman is there?
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