Re: Cover ups

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@korean-war.com>]

>John,

> >>One of the key principles of the humanitarian law
>is that it prohibits unnecessary suffering to combatants.
>Shooting at soldiers who are being drowned anyway is
>clearly unnecessary. In fact, the humane thing under
>such circumstances would be to rescue them and
>turn them over to prison camps. <<

You are still trying to judge law and ethics as the existed in the past by 
today's standards.

And a WWII Fleet submarine did not have the capability to rescue, then feed 
and guard enemy prisoners.  There was barely enough room aboard for the crew.

And where, when and what group of countries passed and signed this 
"humanitarian law" ?

Ed

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