Well said.

There is a terrible seduction that has gone since the Iraq incursion. You cannot know, until you have served, or been exposed to the military there on fact-finding missions, just how seductive is membership in the defense/military community if even as a civilian supporter. It has twisted quite a few otherwise sober civilian heads. Actually the ex-military are more resistant to the phenomena than the civilian overseers.

Something in our primate psychology I suspect, but it has been pernicious in dulling opposition to the so-called “war on terror” that has been conflated with the Iraq occupation.

As I see it, those who refuse to come to terms with their complicity through silence are no less guilty than those who are the direct perpetrators of immorality and illegality.

Moderator, please go ahead and delete the above message from me.

The issues being linked were on the Administration’s attempt to control promotion within the JAG and to introduce political metrics– and the revival of a fairly toxic 1930′s era German politico-legal philosophy in, of all places, a 21st century American Republican presidency.