[djmcmath]

Tragically, once the enemy starts using children as shields, the shields become legal targets as well. There's a kind of "gentlemen's rules" for war that says that you shouldn't kill innocents if possible, but that the enemy is liable for reasonable collateral damage. If you park your tanks in the front yard of the daycare, don't go to the umpire later complaining that your enemy shelled a daycare -- he shelled your tanks, which you placed poorly.

It's a principle that too few people understand, especially in our country.

Dan