----- Original Message ----- From: "Gustl Steiner-Zehender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re[2]: [Biofuel] Re: [Off Topic]US to sell 5000 smart bombs to Israel
> Hallo All, > > Tuesday, 28 September, 2004, 09:39:31, you wrote: > > >>Hi Hakan, > >>Thanks for your reply, but Luc in a previous post (Why We Cannot Win), > >>mentioned it was the duty of a soldier to refuse to fight in an illegal > >>war. > KA> Is it a soldier's duty to do whatever he/she's told? > > This is the unfortunate reality...you are told it is your duty to > refuse an illegal order but if you do refuse the order you can be > brought up on charges and you WILL be told that you obey the order and > lodge a complaint later. You are damned if you do and damned if you > don't. The perfect catch22. But if you don't you at least have the inner peace of not having murdered people on the say-so of some one obviously not interested in law or moral righteousness. > > However it plays out you will find that the responsibility for > anything "wrong" which is done will be placed as far down the chain of > command as possible and preferably on an enlisted person. If an > enlisted person cannot be found to be the goat the responsibility will > fall on the lowest ranking officer possible. In My Lai it was Lt. > Calley although the Colonel who gave the order to "waste 'em" should > have been held responsible. And speaking of General "My Lai" Powell.... who did everything in his ability to try to curtail and bury that little bit of "misfortune". Of course the only misfortune is that it became public. At Abu Ghraib it fell on a female General > who was "in charge" but it should have gone much higher up the chain > of command. > > It works the same way in government "service". Tenet fell on his sword > but the responsibility really belonged to Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney > and Bush. The entire intelligence community is biting the bullet for > the actions of Feith. Colin Powell betrayed his own honor for the > team and lied through his teeth. There is no honor in these people > when it comes to covering their own backs. Which President was it that had a "The Buck Stops Here" plaque on his desk ? Meaning that after everyone else had finished passing the buck around he would himself take responsibility when the cowards had all made themselves known. UNfortunetly, the plaque has been lost and all that is left are moral cowards. Luc > > Happy Happy, > > Gustl > -- > Je mehr wir haben, desto mehr fordert Gott von uns. > Mitglied-Team AMIGA > ICQ: 22211253-Gustli > ******** > The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, > soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, > without signposts. > C. S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters" > ******** > Es gibt Wahrheiten, die so sehr auf der Stra§e liegen, > da§ sie gerade deshalb von der gewšhnlichen Welt nicht > gesehen oder wenigstens nicht erkannt werden. > ******** > Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't > hear the music. > George Carlin > ******** > The best portion of a good man's life - > His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. > William Wordsworth > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
