Quote Originally Posted by Ironside
The point of the white flag is to be able to do any negotiations with the enemy without those ending up as "enemy sighted ".
If it's folly to negotiate then you simple don't get anywere with the negotiations and kill them later, but the trust of the white flag should not be broken.

Now it's perfectly fine for them to take American negotiators as hostage during the next white flag as "the Americans doesn't respect the white flag anyway".
Again, im not trying to use a broad brush here, but in the case of american negotiators, in the field, during a battle, well okay fair enough.

I think whats happening in this thread is we are mixing the broad concept of "waving the white" flag, with a battle field tactic. Immorral and unethical? perhaps, but they werent sitting in an embassy around a large table with camera bulbs going off and the media present, it was in an effort to win a combat situation.

I understand the core difference from myself and those opposed to my premise in the thread is my rational to dispose of a point of honor to achieve the defeat of an enemy (via his death). I do get it fella's, but I suspect if we had the chance to ask those in history if they could use a ploy (no matter the guise) to defeat an enemy while in the midst of combat they would.

To equate that concept to the broad scope of negotiation outside of combat is where we part ways.