I have not disparaged anyone regarding chain of command, except to say that the chain of command is NOT being followed, because the head has been cut off of it.
What I HAVE done is ask this question, applying the logic the anti-Lakin folks use to a case where we have the benefit of hindsight:
Soldier A is ordered: Move the prisoners to the shower area. Soldier B is ordered: Turn on the shower. Soldier C is ordered: Remove the dead bodies from the shower area and place them in the open pit. Which of these orders was “unlawful” under the US MCM and Denise Lind’s analysis?
Nobody has even tried to touch that question. Instead, they accuse me of “disparaging” the US military.
The US military has a fantastic code, a fantastic chain of command, and a fantastic Manual for Courts-Martial - all of which would prevent the US from ever becoming the despicable mess that the German military became, IF IT WAS ALLOWED TO BE FOLLOWED. And right now there is a big battle between those who want to neuter the greatness built into our system by refusing to allow the protections we’ve been given to actually be utilized.
We are at a critical point in this nation’s history. We have communists and Islamists alike who have vowed to destroy this country from within, by infiltrating and using our own system against itself, like a flesh-eating bacteria or a slip-knot that only tightens worse when someone tries to undo it. If we don’t wake up and see the python around our neck before it’s too late, there will be no way to survive this deadly attack.
And THAT makes the hardships of the doctor who had to replace Lakin seem like small beans in the big scheme. The fact that Obama is refusing to allow light to shine on the flesh-eating bacteria tells us EXACTLY whose side he is on. Slithering snake.
Allow me to present a different view, this one from one of the comments at the CAAFLog:
"[A]s Marine infantry officer, allow me to lobby for something else – maximum punishment. For our country to maintain an effective, disciplined and loyal fighting force, we must ALWAYS respect the civilian control that is so elemental to our country’s Armed Forces. Lakin, irrespective of how he colored it, was in a very real, tangible way working to undermine that civilian control. That CANNOT stand.
"We have a civilian political process that is in place to select our civilian leadership. The military, to especially include military officer (field-grade officers, in this case) must always defer to that political process. Obama is the president, period. Whether or not we believe he holds that office defectively must have no impact on our obligation to meet the demands of our mission, and to ultimately complete that mission. Lakin’s hubris directly and negatively impacted his unit’s ability to obtain mission accomplishment. Such hubris cannot be tolerated in our officer corps, and it must be punished to the fullest extent possible. This isn’t just about Lakin, it’s about foundational principles of military leadership."