> so kill them when you are fighting them. It's what soldiers do. true.
> This is something worse > though. And you are more naive than I thought if you think there was no > unconventional > warfare in say world war 2 or Vietnam. And in WW2, non-uniformed (unconventional) combatants were caught and summarily executed on all sides. The ARVN caught and executed many many many Viet Cong during Vietnam, but the NVA were treated differently as they were uniformed regulars of a standing army. Identifiable on the battlefield by a uniform and ID. > I just don't buy the argument that this is some > new and special type of war. Acts of sabotage and such carried out by non-uniformed combatants is covered in the rules of warfare. As Loathe has stated, spies, saboteurs, non-uniformed combatants caught can be summaril executed and were. By all sides. > It's the kind of war you get when youu vastly overestimate > your military superiority. No, this is the type of war you get when you don't adequately plan for or ignore the occupation that comes afterwards, when you plan to be greeted with flowers and parades, and don't plan for a contingency. This is the kind of war you wouldn't be seeing in Afghanistan had the administration not pulled out and gone for the gusto in Iraq. > Napolean could tell you something about that, Perhaps. But Napoleon wasn't beaten by Partisans or insurgency. Napoleon was beaten by slow supply trains winter and fleas. > and so could > Tony Blair. Blair? Thatcher maybe, but then, she only went after the disputed island, not the whole country... -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and that would just be unacceptable." - Carrie Fisher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:217602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
