following orders

[Ivo Skoric]

Thinking about the Abu Ghraib fallout:

>>Asked by an immigration judge if he had participated in ethnic 
cleansing, Konstantinovic [a Serb in Florida facing deportation for 
participating in ethnic cleansing in the Balkans] said, ``Yes. I had 
to go and do the shooting. Your honor, I wasn't even looking. I 
wasn't looking where I was shooting. I had to shoot.''<<

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/7467176.htm?1c

They all just follow orders when it comes to facing responsibility 
and consequences for their actions, don't they? I wonder if their 
superiors ordered them to shoot themselves in their feet, would they 
do it, or are they following orders only when the OTHERS are at the 
harm's end...

ivo