Quote Originally Posted by marct View Post
...Totally agree that the Taliban should have been declared POWs which, BTW, would include Khadr.
True. Then he'd be a PW with no reason to be tried and no hope of release until the end of hostilities...
... The problem with most supra-national bodies is that they have what, for want of a better term, might be called "para-legislative" powers - they are legislative upon states, not individuals. It's awkward in oh so many ways...
Awkward perhaps but even the para legislative powers upon states is there only if the state(s) deign to accept them. For more on which see below.
...Where we disagree is in whether or not our disgust with victim poker outweights the agreements our countries have signed on the rights of child soldiers...
You are aware the US has not ratified some of those protocols? One we and Canada have ratified is the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, which requires signatories to 'take all feasible measures' to ensure that children under age 18 do not participate in hostilities... ???
... Then again, with such sterling role models as Doug Feith around, that may be a touch tricky...
Ordinarily, I would not stoop to citing Maxime or Alphonse as examples that such dimwits abound worldwide but Fido Feith had nothing to do with the discussion.

Or, if he did, I missed the connection,,,