As an officer serving in Afghanistan, if one of my men violated this order, I would be duty bound to praise his readiness to deal with emerging situations. [Note: I am only an “officer serving in Afghanistan” by the Blumenthal standard. In actual fact, my service ended several years ago, but this is the Obama generation so the truth doesn’t have to influence my words.] A good officer distinguishes between orders he doesn’t understand but that could be reasonable and orders that he understands perfectly well and knows cannot be reasonable. My duty to the Constitution of the United States extended to loyalty to my men and my country but not quite far enough that it included blind loyalty to a Community-Organizer-in-Chief who wanted to “send a message” at the risk of my men’s lives.
Praise the LORD for officers like you!