So an inseruction isnt guided by Geneva?yes mostly due to misunderstanding each other. yes there is definitely a similarity with a key difference. smith was fighting an insurrection and patton was fighting a war technically by the geneva convention.
i would probably look sideways at all the flips in that situation too if they were shooting me from th bushes one day and then selling me a soda the next.
doesnt excuse the killings of course, just explains the paranoia better.
That should make Iraq and Afghanistan allot eaiser then...
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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