--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/4/07 1:39:50 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > That might be, but the rules are for OUR benefit, not theirs, both in order > to protect us in > future conflicts with people who might be more tempted to violate the rules > with US > because we already violated them AND because it is a vey bad thing for > people to do such > stuff, and to build it into the rules institutionalizes such dysfunction. > > > > Well I'm sure those rules that we observe helped all those people in the > towers and aircraft that died as well as Richard Pearl and Nicholas Berg, not > to > mention the African embassies. It doesn't protects us any more if we observe > the rules and our enemies don't. In fact it shows our enemies, that they > can > do whatever they want and can in turn expect us to not do like wise. >
The embassy bombines and 9/11 were not battlefields. The Geneva Accords Concerning the Treatment of Prisoners of War apply to battlefields and similar conditions.
