Sorefingers

   One weapon wielding militia man can carry enough thermite, C-4, gelignite, TNT, Dynamite, Black Powder, or gasoline to stop a tank and injure or kill the crew.

   The butchery you are talking about on a soldier to soldier basis can only be blamed on a lack of better training and better tools.

   The coalition doen't excecute POW's or shoot people under the flag of surrender. That appears to be a tactic used by some Iraqis and learned from Hitler, the North Koreans, The Huks, The Mau Mau, Panch Villa, and some union busting Pinkerton types.

    I think you will have to go back to the time of Osceola and other individual Indian battles to find American soldiers who violated a white flag. Proving that at one time an Army, who valued honor and bravery above all else, could still have dishonorable men at all levels of enlistment.
   
   I don't know about Viet Nam, I never served. But I'll bet you can find people who also never served who will be willing to tell you that we violate white flags every chance we get.

Don