Today in the military, a soldier can be “stop lossed,” meaning he or she must return to duty even though their term is almost up. After watching the movie Stop Loss, I think it is clear that a soldier cannot do much to prevent against this program. In the movie King tries to go to higher powers but he quickly find that now he has left the Army basically no one will be on his side. Through the readings in the folders and online as well, I have come to believe that with stop loss the Army and military is never wrong. There have been many cases where people have tried to fight back but almost always lose in the end.
If a soldier does decide to run away after being stop lossed then I think that he or she needs to look at where they are going. As the movie has shown, going to higher powers does not work. From a government stand point I think the only thing they could do with people who wish to escape being stop lossed in jail them or put them into asylums. When it comes to it, running away from the Army after being stop lossed is completely illegal. The soldiers have contracts in which they have signed and there is really no going against that. The only real way to upholding the policy to jail or asylum soldiers who go against orders. I do not think the program is right but I think that there is not much that can be done. Someone high up in power needs to take a stand against stop lossing soldiers and show that it is not good.
Often going to a higher power does not work since often the higher power is responsible for the situation in the first place--see Rendition.
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