The principle that lies at the basis of this is not complicated. The actions undertaken in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific are extrajudicial killings and the assassination of survivors illegal. Steve Cash makes this eminently clear. No one will argue that the struggles of conscience and argument that will likely take place between an officer ordered to carry out an illegal action and the superior who directs him will be fraught, career ending or worse. But it’s not a wish-washy question as to whether an order is illegal, which the administration lackeys and naysayers are poo-poohing, the moment should be bright and clear. I suppose that carrying out one’s moral duty in the face of resistance is always the ultimate battle within us.