Beach bum,
Let's say you were serving in Iraq. You'd spent the whole week helping a dozen families move into a new building. You laughed with them, worked with them, ate and slep twith them. On the last day, a sniper runs into their building and shoots one US soldier, wounding him.
Your CO orders you to take out the building. "but but, i recommend"... you retort. He doesn't care. he has a deadline and you're getting that man and leaving that town now. As you prepare your ordinance to level the building, the families open the windows and beg you not to fire.
You have to choose. Follow orders (the right thing!) and likely kill 60 people including the sniper. Or, refuse (the wrong thing?) and not fire.
What do you do? And if there's a 1% chance you follow your conscience, how you can fault this man who refuses to go to iraq? You called this man "treasonous", right? Is there even a 1% chance you'd commit treason?