And while I may not personally favor the outcome, I have to say that I kind of like that so many Wisconsinites stood up for what they believed was a principle of fairness and made their decision accordingly.
But perhaps Berlin's strongest conviction was that the basic commitments to friendship and truth, fairness and liberty, family and achievement, nation and principle clash routinely and cannot be smoothly reconciled.
But the very effort to ensure the fairness of prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice depends on a principle that contributes to the protracted and confidential nature of such prosecutions: preventing command interference with the proceedings.