[Helmut Von Moltke]

I wasn't talking aobut extreme methods, like those used in the Balkans, etc. The US Army in WWII executed illegal combatants, for example German saboteurs in the USA, and Werewolf partisans, who weren't entitled to the same protections as Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS POWs. Same with terrorists, who aren't entitled to the same protections as Iraqi POWs.

And people complain about Abu Ghraib? Haven't they seen how the Iraqi partisans behead prisoners? Or how a few months ago 2 US soldiers were cut in half?

Speaking of the Geneva convention, they only protect captured enemy soldiers, not partisans.

Speaking of partisans, imagine you are in the boots of a WWII German/ modern US officer. Several of your men have been found, killed, bestially mutilated and burned alive. You now have to write letters to their families of those boys you were assigned to command and protect. Next day you capture the partisans who are responsible. What would you do?

K