Let's look closer. Weren't the clones following a "legal" order from the supreme chancellor? Being in the Navy, you understand how a traitor SHOULD be treated in a time of war.
Yes, I do. We certainly do not conduct summary executions in the field anymore.
All I'm saying is that despite the fact that while we, as service men and women, do in fact obey orders, we do not do so blindly. We are taught the difference between legal and illegal orders. The Law of Armed Conflict, the Hague, the Geneva Conventions - these are all international laws that transcend political boundaries. Even if a country's leader "makes it legal" (didn't the Emperor say that at one point in the prequels?) that doesn't make it legal and certainly not moral.
Besides, an order on the scale of Order 66 would simply not work in real life, unless you were able to brainwash your soldiers from birth, which is the case with the Clones. Order 66 was a massive STRATEGIC undertaking from within the political structure of the Republic. When you talk about following orders without question, what you're talking about are TACTICAL and (for officers only) OPERATIONAL levels of warfare. Most soldiers on the ground are not meant to receive strategic orders of that magnitude, period, and would not even know how to react.
Could you imagine a soldier or even an officer at the Colonel or Lt. Col. level receiving a phone call directly from the President, completely bypassing the chain of command, ordering him or her to summarily execute his generals? Even soldiers, who are trained to obey orders, think for themselves. This is what I keep trying to tell you.
And just so we're on the same page, would you consider the hundred eighty thousand men who stormed the beaches of France, knowingly to their death, brainwashed? They followed orders that present day troops would consider immoral. And all due respect, but a naval mindset is quite different from that of boots on the ground infantry.
You're missing the point entirely, and your logic is flawed. I do not know a single person in the army, navy or air force who would have considered Operation Overlord immoral, as you seem to think, so I don't know what to make of your argument. You insist on the idea that I don't know what I'm talking about, despite my own extensive military experience and your apparent lack of any. You don't seem to have any idea of what a naval or army "mindset" is and I'm wondering, outside of Star Wars, what you're basing your conclusions on.
Don't get me wrong, you seem to have a great deal of respect for the men and women who serve in the armed forces, but I think you're missing my point. For EVERY Clone to follow Order 66 without question or hesitation would have required a fairly significant amount of conditioning (or "brainwashing" if you want), above and beyond what soldiers today are trained for. Real people would have questioned. Real soldiers tend to bond with their leaders in the field, rather than follow their political leaders far away. That's why Palpatine needed Clones.
moral dilemma 
