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Think about a war, and think about both armies acting like that. No More POW's no more White Flags, just blood lust and torturer for Revenge....that's basically what your talking about. use to be the case, whole cities burned, woman and children killed almost as sport as revenage.War is ugly, but the mindset you are talking about can make it alot worse.


Don't forget, what you say our Troops can do, you say Others are free to do to our own troops.


Also one other reason you treat POW's with some respect and dignity, outside you would want your own treated the same....You have 200 armed troops trapped by your men. Would you rather them know they can wave a white flag and be treated well...or know they could be tortured and killed ..meaning they may as well fight to every last one is dead...killing even more of your own men. Think about Iraq I, and even II. Look how many Iraqi troops just gave up and turned himself in. If they thought they where going to be tortured a great deal, you know what they would have done? Fought 100 times as hard, and never give up the white Flag and we would have had a lot more US dead.


Actions today, that you may think may meet some short term goal, carry on to future wars as well, and could cost countless more lives.


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