“I was just following orders,” wasn’t an acceptable defense for convicted Class A, Class B, or Class C criminals during the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo trials or even during the Khabarovsk trials. What has changed but the name, face, culture or religion of the enemy? Morally unsustainable is just morally unsustainable.

Yet to give you the illusion of closure for what every American knows in his heart of hearts is a desperate and cowardly aberration, we now have a very few weekend warrior (National Guard) privates and sergeants imprisoned as the “bad apples” whose souvenir photos exposed to the world America’s moral superiority. As a former conscript combat infantryman who still has his Geneva Conventions card, I tell you that privates and sergeants would never initiate prisoner treatment policies at such facilities on their own. Never.

Furthermore, I am personally offended and deeply troubled and sorry for anyone who just doesn’t get this and takes a Fox Network “24” stand on this issue. We are inheritors of the moral conviction of our founding fathers and our first military commander and later first president, George Washington. Read his words on this subject and come to terms with the reality of what America is in danger of becoming.