Don't put words in my mouth -- I most certainly find the actions of these soldiers both abhorrent damaging to our efforts over there. And I condemned them in my first post (although I recommended another course of action). These aren't prisoners of war, they're terrorists. The major combat ops were over relatively quickly, and now we're attempting to rebuild the country. These people aren't attempting to defeat the U.S. military, they're attempting to stifle our efforts at bringing peace to the region. That's terrorism, and terrorists should not be dealt with as if they were legitimate combatants worthy of Geneva Convention protections.You have confused me. You find the actions of the soldiers abhorrent, but accept executions? And if you were in charge of a prisoner compound, your instructions to the guards regarding the treatment of prisoners would be....?
And if you were in charge of a prisoner compound, your instructions to the guards regarding the treatment of prisoners would be....? I would positively determine which prisoners were terrorists and which were the unfortunate innocents that were picked up in random roadblocks and searches (as swarthyguy mentioned above). I'd release the innocents, detain the ones I was unsure of (without humiliating and degrading them), and execute the terrorists.