Konichiwaneko

I noticed that some of the peole who don't believe in the "Rules of War" are coming up with this scenarios where the rules wouldn't be followed. Like "What if this Iraqi decides to use a shotgun.".

Yes you can play dirty if you want too, the rules are only their to dictate those who follow them. Yes those people may use what measures are required to win, but you aren't going to see the United States army deploy a battallion of troups with illegal equipment to fight a war. THe united states follows those rules.

Yes there are some times were we even break those rules, but in general they are followed. The rules are followed by most countries. War is gruesome, war is bad..yes we can agree to that. Yet War is also very very human. War is our custom, and we must live with it.

Even the games we play, they prepare us for war. War is human nature. It's competition of either political strenght or social belief.

War that brings death is harsh, I think most of all of us agree here. Yet there's no immediate clear all solution. Over time we will either kill ourselves, or one side will purge another and integrate into one another. War will happen as long as people believe in different things. Look at us now, some people on this thread are already going neck and neck. It honestly wouldn't be much to get them going at each others throat. Yeah you are probably thinking as individuals "Nah I'll never hurt another man", but we all know that the individual is rational, and the mob is stupid. Bring together a like minding group of people, then bring in one person that thinks different and stupid things can happen.

What I'm basically saying is War is Human. It is in our blood. Because of that we needs rules to the game.

Leading to the topic of the thread, where do terrorist stand in this?

They simply aren't people who don't follow the rules. The guerilla warfare in Vietnam was unconventianal and didn't follow many of the rules of war.

Terrorist can be more akin to those who don't follow rules, and also target non miltary targets for both physical and psychological impact. They wage war with tatics that are morally unsound to the opposing side. They bring war to another without declaration or notification. They tend to believe themselves to be revolutionaries, yet are so blinded by their goals and titles that they seem to believe those who don't aggree with them are nothing more then fodder.

You can look at anything and compare it to another. Maybe it takes a pacifist or someone who just was raised differently then me to, but I feel like I know what a terrorist is and I honestly believe the US isn't one.

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