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I called for no such "lowering" - I demanded execution of people out of uniform, the long-existing custom in warfare, for which bandits like al qaeda have been given an irrational exemption.  If you want to debate, debate what I say, not strawmen.

You don't know what you're talking about.  Al qaeda has destroyed everything they can get their hands on that is an attempt to improve the lives of the people.  They blow up oil pipelines and electric generators in iraq.  I just read an article about a UK parachute brigade which is guarding the Helmand river dam in afghanistan (a previous gift from the US).  They hand out shoes and cooking oil and flour and school books to the local villages, and the taliban shows up the next day, collects everything, and warns them not to accept anything more if they value their life.   The ONLY way the US can win is to destroy the IFs.  They can do that if they stop irrationally giving them privileges on the battlefield.