“If a fellow soldier is punished for taking his oath to defend the Constitution seriously, what does that mean for our military and for our democracy?”

(Legal) Reality of War...

Reblogged from Authentically Wired:

The WikiLeaks War Logs Don't Show Rare War Crimes--They Show The (Legal) Reality of War...

 
By Chase Madar, TomDispatch.com …Posted on April 15, 2012, Printed on April 16, 2012  … http://www.alternet.org/story/154984/the_wikileaks_war_logs_don%27t_show_rare_war_crimes--they_show_the_%28legal%29_reality_of_war  

Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war -- that corpus of regulations developed painstakingly over centuries by jurists, humanitarians, and soldiers, a body of rules that is now an essential, institutionalized part of the U.S.

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