Originally Posted by JaS
If members of the British Army had deserted their posts in Afghanistan, the UK or elsewhere to take up the fight against Gadaffi, how should they have been treated?
- difficult to draw a parallel there, as the UK had not declared itself 'neutral' in the Gadaffi affair. To add to Orac's post - I think that desertion from a war zone can still 'technically' be punishable by death via the 'due process', so if someone 'defected' in a war zone I guess that would apply. 'Defection' by a member of the Armed Forces outside a war zone would be punishable by imprisonment. As Orac says, though, their children would not be taken away to be abused by 'pseudo religious' folk (or anyone, hopefully).