If anything, his defense will play the insanity / contientious objector line. I can easily see his defense stating that he wanted to "opt out of an unjust war against fellow muslims" and that he felt he persued all possible avenues to avoid killing his bretheren. It will play to the larger world audience but will still buy him a bullet because military criminal justice does not play by the same rules as civil criminal justice.
His conviction will be deserved; however, this may complete his dreams of martyrdom. It will give our foreign and domestic enemies another stone to throw at America. For the suspect and the Muslim world, it is a win-win.
It won't work at all. Conscientious objectors must object to ALL war, not particular ones.
I can easily see his defense stating that he wanted to "opt out of an unjust war against fellow muslims" and that he felt he persued all possible avenues to avoid killing his bretheren.
It will play to the larger world audience but will still buy him a bullet because military criminal justice does not play by the same rules as civil criminal justice.
End result: attorney looks like an idiot, client gets executed.
It will give our foreign and domestic enemies another stone to throw at America.
If they didn't have another one to throw, they'd simply invent one.