Call me an absolutist, but if you are a soldier you’re altogether different from

Call me an absolutist, but if you are a soldier you’re altogether different from a contractor.

We have ancient traditions for objecting to policy. You resign in protest. You bear the burden. And then you do or say whatever you want.

But if you stay in your post you are a spy, an agent, and by consequence a threat to all others you serve with, by virtue of nothing more than spreading distrust.

There is nothing unique about Manning. There have been thousands of him. What is rare is that he was not an officer and a gentleman, nor a man of honor to the men with him in service.

I am sorry he was too stupid to do the right thing the right way. But it is hard to understand how one can be in the service and not understand its moral code.

I’m as glad as everyone else to see the usa embarrassed. And anyone who reads my chatter knows that i want to reduce the scope of the military and state.

But i cant support one immorality over another. Especially when what he exposed was trivially embarrassing and little more.