You're right...it bugs me that we in the USA try to adhere so closely to rules that no one else seems to follow. I guess that makes us an upstanding society, but sometimes I'd like to beat the everlovin' crap out of a terrorist.
Sarah | Homepage | 11.01.03 - 12:47 am | #

I know what you mean. I like that we hold ourselves to a higher standard, I do think that we need to consider whether that standard is helpful or hurtful.

I don't know that our higher standards hurt our soldiers, but I do know that it doesn't always help.

In the case of LtC Allen we know that had he not done what he did, more American lives would have been lost.

Kal
Kalroy | Homepage | 11.01.03 - 2:29 am | #

***In 1987 a PBS show called Ethics in America did a show on military conundrums such as the one that faced LtC Allen West. ***

I know where you can find part of the transcripts to that series:

http://secure.mediaresearch.org/ ...b20011010.asp#4
J.P. Carter | Homepage | 11.03.03 - 8:57 pm | #

Thanks J.P.,

What I'd really like to find was the ethical question involving torturing a prisoner to save your soldiers lives.
Kalroy | Homepage | 11.04.03 - 12:08 am | #