The problem with this theory is that generals do not fire on anybody. They order their subordinates to order other subordinates, etc., and eventually a squad leader orders his privates to fire on somebody.
Even if the general is personally ordering some Air Force pilot with a joystick, flying a Predator, to fire on civilians. If the pilot doesn’t want to, he doesn’t.
The basic problem here is that leftists truly believe that all military people are stupid thugs who couldn’t get any other job, and will obey *any* order given to them by anyone who “outranks” them.
So imagine Dianne Feinstein walking up to a bunch of soldiers and “ordering” them to start shooting at a Tea Party demonstration. “I’m a US senator and I *order* you to shoot those people! Obey me! Obey me!”
If even one private acts like he might, the others will intercede telling him to cut that stuff out. Not a lawful order.
>> “Even if the general is personally ordering some Air Force pilot with a joystick, flying a Predator, to fire on civilians. If the pilot doesn’t want to, he doesn’t.” <<
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Then what happened in Kosovo?
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