George Z. Bush wrote:
The
fact that they may have violated the terms of the Convention, or even that
people fighting independently on their territory may have violated those
terms
does NOT give us the right to ignore or otherwise violate them.
If they violate article X, (not Roman numeral 10, but X as in any article), we
are *permitted* by the convention to violate that same article as frequently as
it was violated by them. Its called the "Law of Reciprocity" and its pounded in
the head of aircrew to make the point that if you don't want your old high
school bombed, don't drop one on theirs.
Once we sign, we're permanently bound and if we ignore those terms for
whatever
reason, we tell the world that our word is no longer our bond and that they
no
longer need to believe that we mean whatever we say.
You need to read a little more about these articles George.
BUFDRVR
"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"
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