Doesn’t this heavily depend on what you did in the military?
edit: I’m not saying it’s good to work for or with the US military in any capacity, but surely there’s some difference between different roles
That's not making excuses, that's pointing out how culpability works in virtually any context. Your distance from a crime is part of what determines how guilty you are, just like your distance from a botched project is part of what determines how much blame you should get. At some point someone working high up at a civilian military contractor is more responsible for the imperial machine than an enlisted person sweeping floors at a base in Alaska.
I don’t see a reason to criticize an accurate description of how responsibility varies based on one's proximity to an act.
If the comment you're referring to is this:
That's not making excuses, that's pointing out how culpability works in virtually any context. Your distance from a crime is part of what determines how guilty you are, just like your distance from a botched project is part of what determines how much blame you should get. At some point someone working high up at a civilian military contractor is more responsible for the imperial machine than an enlisted person sweeping floors at a base in Alaska.
I don’t see a reason to criticize an accurate description of how responsibility varies based on one's proximity to an act.