Widow Testifies at a Military Court

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This caught my eye this morning, for two reasons; 1) because how whacked CNN's moral compass has become, and 2) this 10 year old who was shanghaied into the Khmer Rouge, who at 40, is still trying to assuage his guilty conscience.

CNN Heroes -- Cambodian man clears land mines he set decades ago

This is, and has been, a bigger problem than people are aware. The Geneva Conventions, the UN Charter, and even the NATO charter are documents that assume a certain type of warfare, and a certain type of human decency that are increasingly absent from our world conflicts.

Whether we try to discuss the legality of warfare itself, or the disposition of children engaged in the conflict, we find ourselves relying on legal structures based upon faulty assumptions.