Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it.
The Germans were good Christian people. How did they allow the senseless slaughter of so many people? How did they tolerate the smell of burning flesh without doing anything to stop it?
Those are questions well worth answering. And I have to say that the past 2 years have given some staggering answers.
I am not saying that our military is Nazi. I am saying that the same reasoning that would have excused almost everything the Nazis did is being used by our military experts to explain why Lakin’s only job is to shut up and do what he’s told - regardless of whether it is against the Constitution, laws, regulations, and the customs of the military.
I need to go work.
It may do you some good to get on with going to work or maybe going for a long tiring walk, bicycle ride or some form of tension release.
Right now you aren’t doing yourself or your cause any good. You have become emotionally invested in this case when it never was about what you think it was. I say that in that the charges brought against LTC Lakin weren’t outside the pervue of the officers that issued them. Thus the President and his standing had nothing to do with LTC Lakin being issued the orders. The military isn’t the place to do what you want done. It resides in the Congress via the impeachment process. Barring the Congress taking action the next venue comes in Nov. 2012 via the ballot box.