Contrary to Diadiun’s critique, video on not following illegal orders was timely and needed: Letter to the Editor

Perhaps no column in recent memory has aged as rapidly as Ted Diadiun’s Nov. 30 column, in which he chastises Democratic members of Congress for releasing a video urging U.S. military personnel to refuse illegal orders (“ The Slotkin/Kelly video did the military a disservice ”). Diadiun called their message “a blatant, political anti-administration attack, using the military officers … as props to drive home their opposition....”

We now know that the U.S. military had, in fact, carried out the now-infamous double-tap strike on survivors of an initial U.S. attack on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean. The legality of that first strike is, at best, debatable. Firing on shipwrecked survivors, however, is not debatable at all — it is unequivocally illegal.

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