re: #460 jamesfirecat

The idea behind the Geneva convention is that we don’t trust our soldiers to know when to stop, so instead we have civilians holding the chain.

We don’t need commissars but we do need civilian control of the military that ‘s why the President is commander and chief, even with all the training we give our soldiers, we still don’t let them get to make the final call.

You have no idea what you are talking about. The Treaty is explicitly what Soldiers do, and what their commanders control, during war. How many other signers of the Geneva Convention have the type of control “That’s why the President is commander and chief” that we Americans have, genius?

It isn’t even part of their mentality. I laugh at you. You made the thing a part of America’s tradition and it is an extension of Europe’s tradition when they had MONARCHY. A Soverign isn’t subject to the same controls that American Presidents have.

Really. dude.you have no idea what you are talking about.

the Geneva Convention is a part of our law because the Senate ratified it. Therefore it becomes part of the UMJ. And is supervised by the military. The military has courses from basic training up to the War College about the Geneva.

The most senior enforcers of the Code are military officers. It is only when they fail and a case is brought up internationally (which we reject as a nation) that the civilian leader is brought in to account for internal enforcement measures.

It is the only treaty I know of that is really between teh military of each signoatory and not between teh civilian government.