Video catches a member of the military executing a terrorist that is not covered by the Geneva Convention.
Terrorists by their very nature, eliminate their ability to claim Geneva Convention protections.
If this marine is prosecuted, the citizens of the United States should rise up and fill the streets of our capital until our leaders pull their heads out.
"Terrorists by their very nature, eliminate their ability to claim Geneva Convention protections."
Worth repeating as many times as necessary to drown out the whining military-hating anti-American Obsolete Media.
Illegal combatants are specifically excluded from the protections of the Geneva Convention. Out of uniform, in the wrong uniform, using mosques or churches or schools or hospitals as a firing platform or staging area, using civilians as shields, using ambulances to transport munitions, using a flag of truce or surrender falsely are all violations that can subject you to summary execution on the field of battle or behind enemy lines. Furthermore, a nonsignatory is not protected by the GC if they themselves violate it. None of the various terrorist groups have signed the GC and none adhere to them, so members of those groups are not protected.
There are documented instances of each and every one of the above listed war crimes perpetrated on numerous occasions by the terrorists. Not one of our soldiers should be put at risk obeying rules that don't apply, especially when the other side is using those rules against our guys.
If an enemy appears to be playing possum then they are most likely up to no good. A bullet to make sure is a worthwhile investment when it may possibly be saving the life of one of our soldiers. And if the bad guy was already dead it doesn't matter.