A Note On 'Drone Strikes', Ladies And Gentlemen

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325. We have actually faced, as a nation, this dilemma *twice* before:

1. British authorities threatened to treat American colonists fighting in military units during the Revolutionary War not as 'lawful combatants,' worthy of POW status upon capture, but as full-fledged traitors to the Crown upon capture. General Washington made it swiftly clear that if the British Army wished to engage in an "hanging match" with him, he would reluctantly and regretfully comply, and match them hanging for hanging.

2. Ditto during the later unpleasantness that gripped this country 1861-65. The status of Confederate POW's in that case, IIRC, was that while the Lincoln administration retained an official position that the Civil War was not a "war" at all, but rather an "insurrection" against lawful Federal authority, for all practical purposes they retained the Rule of Warfare then prevailing among nations, even down to granting pardons & paroles for Southern POW's.

Interesting, well-thought out commentary on the matter: thanks for posting it.