Nope. But if we say this is illegal under the laws of war, we have to be willing to enforce those laws against our own soldiers who violate them. Otherwise the laws are meaningless.
Nope. But if we say this is illegal under the laws of war, we have to be willing to enforce those laws against our own soldiers who violate them. Otherwise the laws are meaningless......Restorer
Not to mention that, if it became U.S. military policy to brag about pumping two rounds into the heads of EPOW's we capture, Jessica Lynch and the other seven American POW's who lived through this war would now be dead with two rounds through their skulls.
As I have noted before, both the Soviets and the Nazis threw away the "Rules of War" in the World War II Eastern Front. The result was hundreds of thousands of dead Soviet POW's and hundreds of thousands of dead German POW's.
On the World War II Western Front, the "Rules of war" were respected, with some exception, by both sides. The result was that the vast majority of both German and Western Allied POW's returned home alive.
Acting like the World War II Waffen SS on the Eastern Front does not merely kill "the other guy". It also kills your own POW's.
As it is, the Iraqis treated Jessica Lynch and the seven other POW's that survived this war better than that Marine treated that Republican Guard soldier. It is extremely fortunate that this Marine bragged to the press about executing an Iraqi POW after and not before our own POW's were recovered.