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There were no Geneva Conventions at the time of the Revolutionary War. Additionally, the Geneva Conventions apply to states, not to revolutionary groups. Some revolutionary groups, who by definition aspire to state power and to be accepted by other sovereign governments, will act in accordance...

To cite a few, all of which have been well-documented in the current conflict, including on videotape: Mistreatment of POWs, including display on TV, and possibly including execution. Aggressive action under flag of surrender. Soldiers out of uniform dressed as civilians. Soldiers using...

Yes he is a US citizen - he's been one for 25 years, I think he said. Does it matter? I suppose that's a matter of opinion, depending on one's view of the meaning of citizenship in time of war, and it would conceivably be a matter of law in the extremely unlikely event that he was ever...

I consider Arnett to be a worse criminal than John Walker Lindh - a confused young man who became obsessed with an exotic ideology, and found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, way over his head -with a rifle. As far as I know, he did little of any significance to contribute to the...

The even greater danger is the attack that leaves no fingerprints. [b] There are certainly many historical examples of warfare "working" against terrorism. I'm thinking in part of the kind of thing that real imperial powers have done when the "natives" have gotten too restless. If you...

Maximilian Schell: "I'll show you where the Iron Crosses grow."

Yep. He wasn't the only director whose career ended rather poorly: Hitchcock, Peckinpah, and Kurosawa come to mind. And just have to say one thing, back on the main topic of the thread: STARSHIP TROOPERS PS - HEAVEN AND EARTH was alright - so long as you don't confuse it with...

Am I to understand that your proposal is mimicry? We send a bunch of Arabic-speaking children to Iraq, and every time Saddam makes a speech, they'll repeat it back to him with a few words altered, until they annoy him to death? A couple pages ago, I wrote this: [b] You've now...

...so far it's $250 bn to Iraq as the only proposal from the ET peace camp, but that plan must have had some, uh, holes in it - anyway no one's spoken up for it, not even its author. C'mon, guys! Let's hear a proposal that you're willing to defend! We don't need to look at what Harold Pinter...

Define "re-colonization." I suspect your definition is broader than mine. In some instances, I do believe that pre-emptive war and regime change would be justified and necessary, though I don't believe that the current operation in Iraq is solely pre-emptive. I support development of...

Congratulations, and I mean no sarcasm here, for setting yourself apart from so many on these threads by actually showing an interest in dialogue. I prefer to be cautious about going too far with historical parallels. Baathism and Hussein may have much in common with Nazism and Hitler, but...

Meaningless comparisons, for a number of reasons: The issue is not just what Iraq can do now or was able to do ten years ago. The issues are also, more critically, what Hussein and company could do if left to their own devices, and what would be likely to occur in the region in the wake of a...

"Yucky?" If you were the one who had been raped and tortured for uttering a vaguely anti-Saddam sentiment, or whose family members had been disappeared, or whose village had been wiped out, or whose brothers, sisters, and children were now being used as human shields, or... or... or... you...

The idea of Michael Mann directing an adaptation of GATES OF FIRE reminds me his THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, which was a rather good war movie, too. And that makes me think of Kurosawa's KAGEMUSHA and RAN, which I believe influenced Mann's excellent depictions of combat, and which were great war...

Hope it happens, and that they do justice to the book. Odds are never in favor of either in Hollywood, as you probably know, and are much less in favor (highly unlikely to the power of 2) of both. 300 Spartans? Oops... Well, what's a couple hundred Spartans between friends? I'll look for...

These paragraphs are the closest thing that I can find in your post to a response to my question. I have done extensive reading and research on the subjects, and I believe that many of your presumptions are unfounded - such as the idea that "we" put Saddam "there." Most, by far, of Saddam's...

Oh, good, an opportunity to re-argue the same arguments that we've gone over and over a thousand times over the last year or so. Prediction: msfe will not bother to attempt to justify any of the arguments in this twisted screed. He'll either just disappear from the discussion, or, at best...

Okay, let's try to make it simple: You (or the original author of the letter?) concede that Hussein is a "blood-thirsty dictator, and certainly an embodiment of evil in the world today." Since you appear to oppose military action to remove him and his regime, what is your proposal for...

Or try Victor Davis Hanson - his latest: [b] http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson032803.asp

If you want a well-informed view of the war and its larger context, read other essays like the above at: http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/Comment/index.shtml