War crimes
The prosecution of this RAF chap, has stirred Oliver. However the following quote is not from him, but from The Herald, which I think is a Scottish newspaper:A]s a serving officer, who has pledged to obey orders, it is not up to him to pick and choose where he works or to claim to be an authority on the legal case for war, regardless of his private misgivings
This seems to me to be correct. However I am slightly unsure why I believe this, and yet I don't believe that if my Boss was to tell me to do something I had private misgivings about, and indeed thought illegal, I was obliged to follow those orders. I suppose to clarify the point, surely if an Officer says to a private, 'shoot him', the law of the land still takes precedent. Is there a difference I am missing?
posted by Matthew @ 4/12/2006 10:36:00 PM
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