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Should Politics and Foreign Policy Affect Our Military Justice System?

January 16th, 2012

By Dan Miller The military justice system demands justice for our troops, not revenge upon them to curry favor with others. The video of U.S. Marines who apparently urinated on Taliban corpses has gone viral and not only the Islamic world is watching.

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Tags: foreign policy, justice, Marines, punishment, Taliban, trial, UCMJ, urinate
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A Conservative on McChrystal

June 28th, 2010

By Tom Carter Victor Davis Hanson, one of my favorite conservatives, wrote an article at Pajamas Media the other day presenting a fairly typical conservative view of the McChrystal debacle. Hanson makes it clear that Rolling Stone is a disreputable rag (not much argument there), and the free-lance reporter who wrote the story is a […]

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Tags: court-martial, Hanson, McChrystal, military justice, Rolling Stone, UCMJ
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McChrystal Should Be Charged

June 24th, 2010

By Tom Carter There’s a lot of reporting and commentary on the saga of General Stanley A. McChrystal. He and his staff allowed a free-lance journalist writing for Rolling Stone to spend an extended amount of time with them to gather information for a profile on the general. The article contains highly negative comments by […]

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Tags: Article 88, charges, court-martial, McChrystal, UCMJ
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