Originally Posted by Surrey Towers;8146463
The Geneva Convention (GC) has been mentioned several times. Fair enough. But what do the Taliban think of the GC? Nothing. They murder on a daily basis and if they don't like something said about them they will murder anyone. Remember the little girl getting a bullet in the head?
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What the Taliban or any other foe thinks about the Geneva Convention is completely irrelevant. It is a standard against which we hold ourselves and rightly so. In conducting war we walk a very narrow path where, without extreme caution, we risk allowing ourselves the expediency of the most horrible of atrocities. We hold ourselves to the Geneva Convention and its like because it embodies the very reason we engage in war. It is not by accident the words 'in accordance with the rules and discipline of war' appear writ large on our commissioning scrolls. The convention is there to keep us true, so that we can live with ourselves and our former enemies when the fighting is over.