First posted by Jonah:
I just heard that some insurgent terrorists are shooting wounded marines. Now that is low. Cutting off the heads of journalists and aid workers isn't bad enough, now they can't even conform to the rules of war. What are they - Japenese?
Jonah, you are the author of this topic and the substance of this topic has moved in an entirely different direction from what you expressed in your first post. Like the drift of this topic, the focus of your recent posts have shifted from terrorists shooting wounded Marines to this Marine shooting a wounded terrorist.
The man killed by this Marine was not a prisoner, let alone a prisoner of war. He was a wounded terrorist found in a building. Terrorists have no standing and therefore no protection under the rules of the Geneva Convention or international law.
Perhaps you would have preferred that the Marine had killed a
Jap.
