They Were Just Following Orders
December 9, 2014
Why criticize individual CIA goons for torturing people? They were just following orders. Isn’t that the cry we hear continually about military personnel? They didn’t ask to invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan–they were just following orders so don’t criticize them, just the politicians.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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