Imperial Diet VII

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The Chancellor:

This topics never seems to die the death it should.

Arnold stands and strides onto the Diet floor.

While I have never sacked any settlement and will never do so in my life time, I simply can not comprehend this approach to the men that take up arms against us. The civilian populations are innocent, but the men who fight in the armies of our enemies are NOT!!

If they and their leaders choose to fight us, then they must also choose the consequences of their actions.

To release or not to release prisoners has, and always will be a choice for each commander to make himself.

It is a general's choice alone to make and is part of the privilege AND DUTY of command. These choices also have consequences my Lords. I for example may be seen as one extreme version of this matter.

Raising his voice and a hand to the sky the Chancellor exudes a feeling of dread. Most feel the skin on their arms and neck tingle, for others there is clearly a change in the chamber. The temperature seems to drop momentarily.

The idea of penalizing general's for making one choice over another is short sighted and weak in my estimation!

I have no problem with a general's choice to let prisoners go but I certainly do not accept that any general in this Reich being disadvantaged for ensuring that captured soliders never lift their sword arm against us again!!

With that the Chancellor takes his seat and the unease and feeling of the room returns to normal.