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To: wideawake
he was following the orders of his commander

Your point being?


88 posted on 08/24/2007 8:59:44 AM PDT by Romulus ("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
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To: Romulus
Your point being?

And now you directly declare a moral equivalence between the Allies and the Nazis.

That's even more repugnant than before.

My point, which you deliberately ignored:

Anderson was following legitimate orders which he apparently erroneously construed to be criminal.

In reality, those orders were not criminal and the intent of the commander giving those orders (Arthur Harris) was not criminal - his intentions were militarily and morally legitimate.

A soldier must follow legitimate orders and must disobey criminal ones.

The men in the dock at Nuremberg both issued and followed criminal orders.

The airmen at Dresden both issued and followed legitimate ones.

90 posted on 08/24/2007 9:35:40 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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