Originally posted by aldo_14
So...people are becoming increasingly and visually aware of exactly how **** a solution to problems war is, and you'd rather they went "fair enough, lets send in more youngsters to fight"?
No, I'm not saying anything for or against war at all. What I am saying is that all these people who all of a sudden are shocked by the brutal reality of war are ignoramuses. Whether that war is "good" or "bad" - justified or not, if you'd rather put it in those terms - is not the point I was making.
Originally posted by Gank
Eh, theres this thing called the Geneva convention Sandwich, I'm sure you learned about it having been in the military and your country having signed it, right? I'd have thought somebody who regularly points out how humane his own army is would have been the first to speak out against the execution of wounded prisioners of war, but then again the IDF have been accused of doing the same sort of thing regularly.
Mmm. Tell me, what army in the world doesn't use standard 5.56mm ammo? Far as I know, that was banned in the Geneva Convention for being to brutal. Of course, this was something I (thought I) learned in my early army days, when my Hebrew wasn't all that good. It was either the ammo size or the rifled barrels of the M16s, I'm pretty sure. If someone could hunt up an English version of the Geneva Convention agreements (i.e. not legalese please), I'd like to look at it.
And as for shooting those guys, yeah, I'm just as against it as the next guy. BUT, I also realize that pictures - especially pictures by reporters -
never tell the whole story, and often only show the portion of the story the way the reporter/editor wants it to be told. What, you think that the editor guy in Spiderman 2 was just some Hollywood character, with no basis in reality?
