nessus2 wrote:
AZKC writes:

Killing them on the "experts" say so is okey-dokey, waterboarding them on the experts say so is a war crime.


Yes. Exactly. The question is one of how you behave toward those you have in custody.  Shooting your enemies is not a war crime.  Torturing them is.  There is nothing unusual about this formulation.  The Geneva Conventions are built around it.

  
Yeah, you're right, damn it.


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