This is Patriotism

The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday on the court martial mistrial of Lt. Ehren Watada, who refused to deploy to Iraq in 2006 and argued in court that to fight in Iraq would be to engage in war crimes. After the mistrial was declared, the Army ruled that it could not retry Watada.

As his lawyer put it:

[Watada is] a hero and a patriot . . . [who] took a lonely stand as a matter of conscience, never attempted to spread discord within the ranks, and never sought to evangelize about his ethical convictions. . . . It is our belief that history will treat Lt. Watada far more favorably than the United States Army sees fit to regard him now.

Word.