Once again, DemocracyNow is covering a story that few others are. They convey a report from an embedded Army Times reporter on U.S. soldiers in Baghdad staging a mutiny by refusing orders to exact a revenge attack after an IED attack for fear that it would become a massacre.
Here's more in 2 parts on what looks like a brave act of conscientious resistance:
Men refuse to go on a mission they fear could turn into a revenge mission due to their emotional state.
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Men refusing orders to exact a revenge attack after an IED attack for fear that it would become a massacre.
Big difference between the former and the latter.
Yes, because the line between revenge and massacre is not thin at all.
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