[Truthsearcher]

You're missing the point. I don't care about the Geneva convention. I don't think the Geneva convention should be a replacement for our conscience.

We respect the rights of human beings because it is the foundation of everything we stand for, and we abandon it at great peril to us.

[hobbes1]

We respect the rights of human beings

Then obviously you disagree, that the targeting of civilians makes one claim to be human automatically forfeit?