[John Valentine]

Lets start with a the fact that both the United States and Afghanistan are signatories to the Geneva Conventions I think that you hwve to end it right there, not start it, for although Afghanistan was once a signatory to the Convention, I thnnk it is the case that they withdrew under the Taliban.

[TheFrog]

If you can point to a source for this comment I would like to see it. Having rechecked the United Nations. The Taliban did infact withdraw from a few Multilateral Treaties but this does not appear to be one of them.