war is not a moral affair and you better be a savage to survive

The argument would be more that being inhumane could drive up their recruitment and also cause populations who are subject to mistreatment to be more willing to collaborate with insurgents. I don't know if I agree with that or not

don't need to worry about that if you leave no survivors

I mean

Yeah

Yeah, but it's tough to make a case of "it was him or me so I stabbed him" when the incident in question was him stabbing a kid receiving medical care from other SEAL medics

I mean

Theres got to be some line you dont cross, right?

Waste of meds you could use on a seal

Enemy combatants don’t deserve aid

Neither do their spawn

Kids are just child soldiers trying to get out

I don't necessarily agree that enemy combatants don't deserve aid, I would agree that terrorists/insurgents don't though, unless they are for whatever reason more useful alive

If they signed the same rules you did, abide by them when fighting that enemy

If they never signed, they're not protected and you don't owe them shit

"War is hell" until the other man puts you in hell with hollow point to the gut, if you don't follow the rules don't expect them to be applied to your own situation

Like I said, if they don't follow the various conventions on warfare, you don't have to treat them by those rules.

@Mangy no fucking shit

we aren't the IRA

Both parties have to sign the agreement for it to be binding

legit ISIS and the IRA abuse that

Yep

Yeah, ISIS and IRA arnt subject to these conventions, that's why Idk if what this guy did is really a "war crime"

They're savage animals, and they don't deserve to be treated by the rules of civilized warfare.

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Uniformed combatants deserve help

Terrorists and irregulars don’t

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He's not wrong

Also if you fire on red crosses as a matter of tactics you're garbage.

There are some things that make sense and some that don’t within the laws of armed conflict

Things banning cluster munitions or flamethrowers and napalm, for example, are gay

The ones banning blinding weapons are fine, same with gas

I don’t agree with pointless suffering

“Flame weapons cause suffering” is a counterpoint I’ve often heard

Cluster munitions is understandable in that hey are hell to clean up undetonated munitions from. especially if its in a county you give a shit about

If we were serious about getting rid of terrorists, we'd clear out the entire population as Rome did

Tank crews burn to death all the time

Flamethrowers don't make sense tbh

wat

They’re extremely effective