We've got to get our act together and make it crystal clear to those involved on ops as to the bounds of their behaviour also that any such abuses will be thoroughly (and openly) investigated and prosecuted under UK or local laws. If we don't we might as well pack up and leave since we are only making the situation worse for all involved. Such incidents are pure recruiting gold for the likes of Al Qaeda.
Oh spare me!
Pen a Cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his hat....and millions of the buggers come out of the Wood Work as Suicide Bombers!
Keep dreaming!
One does the best one can....and to suggest our Lads and Lasses are anything less than dedicated in their duty is an insult. When excesses occur...and they have and shall do so again....as no group of folk are perfect particularly under the stress our current generation of war fighters are.....they are found and dealt with.
War is a messy business....one cannot change that.
Using the rationale that "killing" ones opponents only engenders their Next of Kin and neighbors to continue the fight only holds to a very limited point. Once they see opposition is futile, hopeless, and bound for failure....they will lay down their Arms and submit....or desist in their hostile ways.
The one real exception to that is when the Opposition is actually in the Right....and their opponents are in the Wrong. Principle trumps Practice in that regard.