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Re: Where do you draw the line?
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Originally Posted by gpick24
When my step daughter came back from afghan, we were told a story of a young soldier who went off to find some lost equipment, he was told, wrongly, that he would lose his tour bonus for losing it. He never came back. The Taliban actually radioed to tell where he could be found. He was dead,naked and had been tortured.
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No Geneva convention for him either.
There can be no 'Civilised' conflict.
I can understand why the Geneva convention rules were set up...but war was very different back then......I would hazard a guess that most soldiers knew who the enemy was.
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