The president-elect stumbles over the protocols of geopolitics and war, tweeting all the way.
And the reason is because the protocol arguably provided prisoner of war legal status to terrorists, and so it has been a consistent executive branch position since then, is that we're not going to do that because it hurts our soldiers.
"Have you read the protocols of the Yom Kippur War?" If not, he said, do so quickly and ask yourselves: "Have things changed in these 37 years?
There was an attempt in 1977, Protocol 1, to provide prisoner of war legal status to terrorists.
Recall, these are the people who deemed the Geneva Conventions, the international protocol setting out the rules of war which previous administrations adhered to -- including the prohibition against torture -- as "quaint" (White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez' term).
At the time of the vote, Burr said he was not in favor of enacting a large shift in military protocol during a cumbersome time of war, but clarified that he believed such a system of institutionalized discrimination was inherently wrong.
Although implicitly covered by earlier prohibitions on inhumane treatment, the 1977 Geneva protocols explicitly outlawed rape as a weapon of war.
Yet the information that advisers can take with them under the protocol sounds more like what a prisoner of war is compelled to reveal under the Geneva Conventions.
The Geneva Conventions (1949) and their additional protocols (1977) deal with, among other topics, prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, war at sea, occupied territories, and the treatment of civilians.
These results exclude rotational tug-of-war.
