Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Most of the stuff "clandesine services" do isn't legal or sanctioned by the legislature or judiciary, and as for the armed forces - pull the other bleeding leg!

Soldiers fight, in WWII only about one in ten of our soldiers fired their weapons and we still won with the majority of people not killing anybody! War is a blinking game, hopefully one side blinks before somebody dies, but often not. Even so, that is completely different from having a civilian execute someone by judicial order.
A lot of what the clandestine services do is legal and was sanctioned I think it was in the '70s the USA stopped doing assassinations. What's changed? They've changed the terms, not the actions.

Completely different in what way, exactly? In the case of the Armed forces, people are killed indiscriminately. For a war to be legal this has to be under a law. In the latter one person is killed under a law. And in most wars tens of thousands of people end up dead at the very least. Even if most didn't do the killing, someone did.

If it is the problem a civillian is doing the executions, then by all means get a member of the Armed Forces to do it if that makes all the difference.