If the US violates the Geneva Convention.....?

Question

We are shunned for it. Most other countries use the fact that we have to follow these rules against us. Do you belive that the Geneva Convention is good for those who follow it, or for those who don't???

Answer 1

If we violate the Geneva Convention....then we get in a long line. The Geneva Convention will only work if everyone follows it..and the US seems to be the only one who attempts this...and our allies (GB, Australia, etc...)
Our POW's get trials and US citizen rights...while an American soldier or layperson gets beheaded....
Not that I think we should start beheading people, but the people in Guantanamo Bay were not being abused...

Answer 2

I just wonder when the monsters are going to follow the Geneva convention. The monsters aren't wearing uniforms, so we could summarily execute them if we wanted to. We are at war with people that will blow themselves up to intentionally blow up innocent women and children. That execute uniformed soldiers in clear violation of the Geneva Convention and there is a huge segment of the world that give these monsters a pass at it.

The monsters made the rules for this conflict, let's play by them, not ring our hands.

Answer 3

What do you mean, if?, the US already has, in Iraq and Guantanamo to name just a few. Not to mention the invasion of other sovereign nations without Worldwide support or support from the UN. It is for this reason that Bush should be tried as a war criminal. The US doesn't give a jot for the Geneva Convention.

Jules, lecturer. Australia.

Answer 4

because we did violate the Geneva convention. I anticipate without caution prevalent Petraeus will no longer be credible contained in the eyes of many Republicans and Conservatives now. they are going to be those keeping prevalent Betrayus.

Answer 5

We have gravely erred in ignoring the Geneva Convention. We have imprisoned people without due process and then claim they are warring against us, but then we don't treat them as P.O.W.'s.

What are we thinking?? We treated German P.O.W.'s so well that even today, former German P.O.W.'s will tell you how much they love and respect this country. And c'mon Nazi Germany posed a greater threat to this world and this country than Al-Qaeda could ever hope to.

Our treatment of German P.O.W.'s gained us one of strongest allies, even if they don't always agree with our wrong-headed decisions.

And today, every wounded American Soldier finds himself in a hospital on German soil.

I speak from experience on this subject. In 1985 I was approached in Sigmaringen Germany by a elderly man. He heard me speaking English and asked if I was American. He then told me how he had served in the 10th Panzer Division (that kicked our butts at Kasserine Pass) and was captured in 1943 and spent the remainder of the war in a Colorado P.O.W. camp. He told me how much he loved my country.

We have a chance to change the hearts of our enemy, but torture will only harden them against us and give them the will to hurt us that they may not have possessed until we imprisoned them.

Shame America...shame...

Answer 6

Following the convention makes us profesional. It was never meant to be applied to cowardly terrorists.

Answer 7

nobody follows the Geneva Convention!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

I think it is good for following it as it helps humanity

Answer 9

protects the ones who don't follow it from their own tactics being used on them.

Answer 10

You are correct about the "if'"

Can you quote a part of the GC we violated? (Don't worry - nobody else can either.)