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Ok, so let's pretend we're him. He joins the servivce in a reactionary moment of patriotic zeal after 9/11. Then, He's IN. He doesn't have the luxury of sitting in a hoff reading Hemingway and making snide comments about the government while drinking too much soju. He's got a weapon and orders to go fight and likely kill people (hopefully insurgents), in Iraq.
But he thinks it's morally wrong. What should he do? Just go do it because he signed the paper and that's his duty? This question may be unpoular here, but are duty and bravery the same thing?
It's easier for me to write this as a non-soldier, but both Thoreau and Martin Luther King, Jr., have written eloquently on the moral duty of the American Individual to stand up to an unjust law. If he truly, honesty feels that fighting in Iraq is an immoral choice then I actuualy think that going and fighting just cause he's "supposed to" shows more cowardice, just moral cowardice.
Yes, Americans would be screwed if all the officers picked and chose when to fight. I'm not saying he shouldn't have to take the consequences for his decision. Just consider, couldn't it be true that in some cases, like his, fighting "because you're suppoosed to" could also be cowardly?

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