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Ok, let's say this is a mercy killing.. perhaps is was. Maybe this guy had intestines hanging out of his stomach, and missing both legs.. whatever. Despite that fact that you want to put this guy out of his misery, and it is apparent he will die, and die slowly if you don't do something about it you can't do it.. because then you will have 150,000 U.S. troops trying to figure out when they should and shouldn't perform a mercy killing.. or even use that as an excuse to kill random wounded. Maybe this soldier did the wrong thing for the rights reasons, but you just can't do that. If you don't have rules in war, you end up with 150,000 people running around with guns with no guidelines as to what they can and cannot do.
Now what the enemy is currently is a grey area. They are not uniformed soldiers fighting for any particular country and actually do not fall under the geneva conventions. If captured they are not POWs. They fall under the same category as the taliban members sitting in G Bay... which is not really categorized. They are combatants, but non-combatants. Rules of war are much more complex than you could ever realize..and don't even cover every aspect of it. So again you have the question... what to do?
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