The Rules of War

Educational article by Andrew McCarthy at NRO, discussing "Protocol I" to the Geneva Conventions, to which the US is not a signatory. It goes a long way towards explaining the differences between the US and Europe on the treatment of "detainees" and the conduct of the WOT generally.

He reminds us:

Further, the British revile our Guantanamo Bay detentions of captured enemy combatants, to the point of insisting, with success, that British prisoners (some of whom were among the worst terrorists held in Gitmo) be returned to England, where most were promptly released into the population.

Seems like a bad plan today. And he astutely notes:

Too often, in Britain and throughout Europe, the humans whose rights are the subject of obsessive concern are the ones doing the killing rather than the ones doing the dying.