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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSecNav's Letter of Resignation
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/24/1901708/-SecNav-s-Letter-of-Resignation?detail=emaildkreSecNav's Letter of Resignation
Attorney at Arms
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Sunday November 24, 2019 · 9:30 PM EST
Unfortunately it has become apparent that in this respect, I no longer share the same understanding with the Commander in Chief who appointed me, in regards to the key principle of good order and discipline. I cannot in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates the sacred oath I took in the presence of my family, my flag and my faith to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
I dont know the whole story here. But I know that when we start seeing high ranking officials write letters like this time and time again, there is a big problem.
Ive covered it elsewhere, but I give the LOAC briefs (Law of Armed Conflict) where I explain to deploying soldiers that when we mistreat prisoners it hurts us because enemies willing to be taken prisoner mean less fighting and less dead Americans.
They get that even if a lot of chickenhawks think its weak.
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SecNav's Letter of Resignation (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2019
OP
Probably combination of rump letting war criminals off AND ordering our military to wipe out
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2019
#3
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)1. Great letter
Worth reading.
Beringia
(4,314 posts)2. This is sad. Losing a good person.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)3. Probably combination of rump letting war criminals off AND ordering our military to wipe out
civilians who are brown.
Captain Zero
(6,714 posts)4. It doesn't take much to incur the displeasure of Trump
Farting sideways could probably get you fired in that white house.
C_U_L8R
(44,893 posts)5. The other chiefs should be ashamed
for not standing up for their comrade.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,038 posts)6. "when we mistreat prisoners it hurts us" -- needs to be pounded home
"[W]hen we mistreat prisoners it hurts us because enemies willing to be taken prisoner mean less fighting and less dead Americans."
See, e.g., Iraqi soldiers surrendering even to reporters and drones during Gulf war 1. They had confidence in being better treated by the coalition than if they went back to Saddam.
Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)7. This ought to be added to the articles of impeachment.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)8. Not resignation - termination
Not resignation - termination
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