If an order is against the constitution it is illegal on its face.
Michael New was not given any anti-Constitutional order.
It's not a matter of "conscience" if a soldier is too stupid to understand the Constitution.
Yes, there-fore as New understood his constitution, he was not to don a UN uniform and follow the unconstitutional orders of his commanders by serving under that emblem!
Does the constituion mean what it says, or are we, as it has been accelerating since Clintonious, reduced to for-ever arguing about shifts of nuance and meaning? New argues from a very black and white basic interpretation of the language, the army tries to say “well yeah the constitution but we’ll supply the interpretation which mean you follow the orders of the president even if he is acting from a transnational point of view”.
That point of view doesn’t wash with me, and I hope there will be many more “News” if they keep pushing that UN !thing!