Soldiers
should be guaranteed that they will not face prosecution afterwards for any deaths
they are deemed responsible for in war zones.
I
say this for two reasons. One, that an internal
military court system should deal with all these charges, because, two, any
soldier who has this hanging over his head will be unable to properly do his
duty as a soldier. And so he or she is likely
to end up dead him or herself, if they first have to first assess that every
other individual in a war zone, is a legally defined enemy and not some inappropriate*
third-party He will also be unable to
do his/her job, as a soldier, properly - i.e. kill as many of the “enemy” as
is possible.
*
…without the word ‘inappropriate’, many youngish would-be intellectuals would
be unable to effectively rail against us ‘oldie thickos’ whose mantra is,
“…context, context, context is (almost) everything”
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