''I think it's naive to hope or beleive rules will be adhered to in any war''
whilst that's correct ---------- there are clear levels and differences though
take the Australians who were killed by Germans at Pheasant Wood -
they were buried by the Germans respectfully and carefully.
Look to the difference between that behaviour and putting small children in gas chambers or purposeful starvation of children and babies or the shooting of bound and disabled prisoners and drinking grog from their artificial limbs as some kind of tough guy ritual
whilst there may be rules or no rules - there is also just plain decency
