End of the day to be honest i won't be fighting this one so fight it how you like but if we are going to try and do it with rules don't whinge and complain when more body bags are coming back then needed too. Like i have said it's ok to be all high and mighty when your not the one that is doing the fighting and taking the risks and there is nothing worse for the conduct of any conflict then having armchair generals trying to all have their say. But hey we might take more casualties we might inflict more harm and damage due to the drawn out protracted nature of it but we will do it from a position of playing by the rules
. Oh and the analogy of Vietnam is very good a war that should have been all over in a couple of years tops dragging on for over a decade causing more and harm and misery because someone wanted to have the moral high ground and thought war could be played in a certain way.