re: #446 screaming_eagle

According to the Geneva Conventions , if your not in uniform and you are hiding behind civilians, you are to be killed on the spot because of the danger you pose to humanity. This would mean our military would take no prisoners. A policy that is perceived by the enemy as take no prisoners would result in every one of them fighting to the death and never surrending, that would create more US causlities.

It does pose a problem. The non-uniformed combatant especially so.

It is an asymmetry problem.

The enemy that chooses to not wear a uniform benefits from our unwillingness to make it too unpleasant for him to be willing to do.

If we allow them to violate the rule of sanctuary, then sanctuary is mocked, worse, used as a weapon that only the enemy can use against us.

This is a problem for all civilized people. Can we allow the enemy to violate and nullify the rule of sanctuary because we lack the will to enforce it?

How does that serve civilization?