Btw,
I noted how “unlawful combatants were treated during WWII when I said:
“The problem is, the Geneva Convention doesn’t say much about how “unlawful combatants” are to be treated. During World War Two, the Germans and the Japanese simply tended to line them up and shoot them after brutal interrogation sessions.”
So I DO note that unlawful combatants - whom are today often being called “enemy combatants” - did not have any rights or privileges accorded to them.
And my ultimate point is that if we wipe out these distinctions, we may as well have the armies of the world throw away their uniforms and start employing the tactics of the terrorists to wage war whenever it is useful for a nation to do so.
So I’m not doing what you think I’m doing, but rather arguing that we need to keep the G.C. distinctions intact.
We're in 100% agreement here. Both the GWB and BHO administrations have horribly messed up the terminology and, more importantly, the policy on this.