Judging from the 20th century track record of almost everyone, we'd probably have to say "yes."Originally Posted by CountArach
Re: The rules of war
Judging from the 20th century track record of almost everyone, we'd probably have to say "yes."
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Re: The rules of war
These rules have saved countless lives throughout the years, they basically protect everyone, even if your enemy does not follow these rules by holding yourself to a higher moral standard you can show that you are the on the side of right...
Besides, these days any developed country that doesn't follow these rules gets such a pr backlash that it is worth following them for that reason alone...
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Re: The rules of war
Backlash? As in the UN sending them a letter saying they "the bad country are being bad boys" because they didn't follow rules?
Re: The rules of war
Backlash as in an extended and intensive insurgency that costs thosands of US lives? Am I talking in the realm of hypothesis, or has the US found somewhere to demonstrate why following the rules is a good idea?
Backlash? As in the UN sending them a letter saying they "the bad country are being bad boys" because they didn't follow rules?
Do you know anyone who has died in Iraq? Do you think that maybe if the US had followed the rules, the insurgent who had taken their life may not have been so outraged to commit extreme violence?
This isn't a shot at the US specifically - it apples to jsut about every nation that has been involved in war - the US is just an example that's probably a lot closer to most people here.
Re: The rules of war
It's like the situation with raising chickens. Some people say, if we are going to eat them anyway, why be nice to them and put them on free range when we could just pour grain down their throats through tubes 24/7.
Some weapons are disproportionately cruel considering their effectiveness.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Re: The rules of war
Have you seen the price of an 'organic' 'free range' chicken these days?
Give me a battery hen anytime, they're a quater of the price.
Force fed by tubes is foi gras. Not chucks.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Unless, of course, you lose.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: The rules of war
Backlash? As in the UN sending them a letter saying they "the bad country are being bad boys" because they didn't follow rules?
Though its debatable whether it breaks the rules or not, gauntanamo is the most obvious example, if we assume it isn't against the rules imagine the even bigger pr backlash for something that is against the rules...
Unless, of course, you lose.
Well that isn't really applicable to any developed countries at the moment, they don't do unwinnable wars (well unwinnable against enemies military, occupation is a whole other problem)
I would be more supportive of rule breaking if the fight is literally life or death for our country, only if the enemy is using some tactic that is amazingly effective and against the rules that is winning them the fight, outside of that narrow definition we have no need to break the rules and it costs us very little to follow them...
IMO it gives us more benefit by following them than it costs us to ignore them...
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