If an American solider refuses to kill an Iraqi solider, would the American soldier be called a traitor?

Question

If an American solider refuses to kill an Iraqi solider, would the American soldier be called a traitor?

Answer 1

no....I guess if they allowed an Iraqi soldier to kill American soldiers and did nothing to stop it, he could be. But simply refusing to kill someone does not make him a traitor

Answer 2

Why would an American soldier be killing an Iraqi soldier in the first place?  We're on the same side.

If instead you meant to ask if a soldier refused to kill one of the insurgents in Iraq, he wouldn't be called a traitor, he would be called a dead soldier.  We don't kill for the joy of it, we kill when we're in harms way, about to be killed ourselves, or to protect others from being killed.

Answer 3

Actually, our war with Iraqi soldiers has been over for some time.  We're training them now, not fighting them.  The insurgents are who we're fighting.  You know, the ones who don't wear uniforms and hide behind civilians when they shoot at the troops and set off road-side bombs.  And if a soldier in the field refused to fire back, he could be brought up on charges of dereliction of duty, not treason.  And his fellow soldiers wouldn't want to serve with him anymore since they couldn't trust him to have their backs in a fight.

Answer 4

Your premise is circumstantial.

A time when an american soldier will be asked to kill an Iraqi solider is if that solider makes a life threatening attack on Americans. That would be and act of war from Iraq on America.