wat0n wrote:Should war have rules?
British soldiers should not commit rape or desecrate dead bodies. In some ways I'm actually a bit of rules fanatic. For example I don't think we should kidnap, torture and cage "terrorist" suspects without trail or due process, even if they are foreigners. Most Liberals either support these measures or at the very least are quite happy to be in a military alliance led by people that do.
But let us consider the 10/7 special military operation. What was its purpose? Was it to destroy the Israeli army in whole or in part? Was it a classic Clausewitzian operation designed to destroy Israel's ability to fight. Clearly not. Not at all.
Was 10/7 aimed to capture and hold territory? Again clearly not, not at all. So what was this operation's goal?
Its sole goal was to hurt Israelis, to cause them pain and suffering. Now consider the young men, may be older boys who committed themselves to this operation. They didn't expect to live. They were sacrificing their lives for this operation. The expectancy must be that they wouldn't come back. Now we can debate the morality of this, we can debate whether this was a wise sacrifice of one's life. But given that they had committed to the operation. The best they could expect in return for their lives was hours, not weeks, not days but hours. If successful as the operation was, they had hours to cause maximum suffering to Israelis.
Don't you think it would add immensely to the suffering of the friends and relatives to know that their loved ones had spent the last minutes of their lives being raped. Wouldn't it add immensely to their suffering, if the images they couldn't get out of their heads, was of their loved ones dead bodies being violated? Given the nature of this operation, given that you'd chosen to sacrifice your life for the mission, I can't understand why anyone would not want to use the weapon of rape. I can't understand why anyone would not want to desecrate the bodies.