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I find it very interesting, and also quite logical, a private soldier is not the one who should start reflecting on the legality of an order unless it is really obvious.
But I wasn't talking about them, I don't think the common soldiers should disobey those orders, I was talking about the senior generals, those who run the Pentagon, they have plenty of knowledge, time and advisors to know when an order is unconstitutional and the intellectual and economic capacity to resist a court-martial if necessary. If they don't do it, it is out of pure cowardice or ideological harmony with the orders and I don't know which is worse.