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Hamilton Nolan

08/21/13 10:27AM

Filed to: whistleblowers

"I vaguely hoped that one day, someone would say something. I just didn't want that person to be me. That bar was too high for my moral courage to clear." A former soldier's brutally frank reflections on Bradley Manning and the pathology of conscience.

whatev2013 Hamilton Nolan 08/21/13 10:49AM

This is a little bit all over the place, but:

When I look at Bradley Manning, I think of how I want my child to be. I've always told my son that the only thing I don't want him to do for a living is to join the military. In the fact of unspeakable atrocity, what is the proper response? Bradley Manning tried to respond as a decent human being. He tried to uncover the unspeakable atrocity, most likely believing that the American public had a right to know what the government was doing on its behalf.

For this his life was ruined.

This makes me ashamed of my country.