Islamic State seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women and girls in Iraq

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212. They educated themselves

About history. Traditions from the past. They are using their education to justify their barbaric acts. They want to go backward as far as the progress the world has made.

The world has evolved to exclude those acts as legitimate spoils of war. It's a war crime, for real. People who specifically refuse to obey the laws of war are declaring themselves to be outside the bounds of human decency.

Drones are an attempt to at least kill the bad people and not indiscriminate like bombing. The world has not stated that is out of bounds for war. In fact, bombing indiscriminately is likely allowed and not considered a war crime. It's part of war. We may not like war, but where it is happening, there are certain rules that define war crimes. (though there are those on DU who apply that term to all acts of war, it's not true - the world does allow war to happen still. There are certain acts that are considered too much, but war itself is still accepted).

So the US isn't guilty of war crimes, and if you insist drones are, then the US is no better for not intentionally enslaving woman and children as spoils of war? Sometimes USDS exists and attempting to paint the US as no better than ISIS shows that.

Subhuman may be a bad word to use. But people who have declared they will not respect the laws of war and justify using terms of war from centuries ago are not people we have to consider, in the war situation, as people who get a chance to be reasoned with.