(Brian Allardice) wrote:

:"4.A.3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government
r an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power."

Except the overwhelming bulk of Taliban forces were not "regular armed
forces", since that implies little details like uniforms, chain of
command, responsibility to follow the rules of war, etc.

:Well, at least that has the merit of grappling with the realities of
:"asymmetrical warfare", from American colonists sniping at the Redcoats to
:almost everything going on today and for the forseeable future.

Yes, but the issue (and the reason we didn't sign) is whether an
asymmetrical force SHOULD be entitled to the protections of the
Conventions, since they will never follow them.

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