“Are you saying the Taliban signed on to the Geneva Convention?”
We did. If we don’t follow it, we re no less the animal than they are. And if we don’t it causes more people to get hurt by example. Read about Charlie Hebdo and his screw up. He put Allah in a series of cartoons and that got a business fire bombed and 12 people murdered.
“Step me though how taking a photo with a dead zipperhead is going to get anyone deader or more tortured than they’re going to get anyway! LOL!!”
It’s really simple. Look up Article 16 of the GC and it will tell you what is and is not legal to do. I retire from teaching soldiers about terrorist in 2012. And when you can figure out who is and is not a terrorist, dead or not, you better copyright it. I was in the business for over 30 years and everyone I talked to couldn’t tell the difference. To me and everyone I know, good or bad looks exactly the same until they pick up a weapon or discharge HE.
The GC is not the best thing out there as it is fallible. But it’s the law and not following it is a criminal act. Gallagher didn’t follow it and may get someone else killed that doesn’t deserve it.
rwood
Really?
You are using Hebdo as an example?
Good grief.
No, that's as silly as blaming an inanimate gun for a shooting. What got the place firebombed was a loose jihadist who could just as easily have decided, as have innumerable Muslims before him, that unescorted women are fair game to be raped, or that a church full should be burned to the ground because its pastor performed an infant baptism and the pastor shouldn't have done that because it would anger muslims, who believe that everyone is born muslim regardless of the faith of the birth parents and therefore that every infant baptism is a horrible forced conversion requiring action. The answer to those who hate us for our freedom is not to limit freedom, is to quit admitting and pandering to people who don't value freedom into our countries, our military, and public office.