Geneva Conventions laws of war ’need fixing’ - BBC News
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David Rodin, a moral philosopher and co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, points out that “if you look historically at where the law of armed conflict came from, it’s about mutually advantageous reciprocity, it’s in the interests of both to have some restraint”.
He adds: “So what do you do when you have a foe who is not interested in that reciprocity? There’s no benefit to us in behaving well if the enemy doesn’t.”
This might be a seductive line of argument for countries engaged in the so-called “war on terror”.
Il est quand même extraordinairement fabuleux de prendre comme prémisse le fait que les armées dites régulières, notamment occidentales, sont respectueuses des conventions de Genève, notamment vis-a-vis des combattants et des civils non occidentaux.