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   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 16:53:37 -0500,  Chris Ahlstrom says...   
      
   > > In what world does Will live where the military gets one shot at a   
   > > target? Going back to finish the job is nothing new.   
   >   
   > In the UCMJ world when prisoners, disabled combatants, and   
   > non-combatants are involved.   
      
   That's in war.   
      
   WHAT war has been declared?   
      
   Combatant status: Wounded combatants remain combatants and can be targeted   
   unless they are hors de combat (i.e., unable to fight).   
      
   Military necessity: The laws of war ALLOW FOR THE KILLING OF COMBATANTS WHO   
   POSE A THREAT OR CAN STILL PARTICIPATE IN HOSTILITIES.   
      
   In the heat of battle, it can be challenging for soldiers to determine whether   
   an opponent is wounded or not.   
      
   Boat Crew Members:   
      
   If a boat is disabled on the "battlefield" and the crew members exit with   
   their personal weapons, such as machine guns, they are still considered   
   combatants, and therefore NOT protected by IHL or the UCMJ.   
      
   Continuing to Fight   
      
   In this scenario, the boat crew members are still a threat to the opposing   
   force, as they are armed and appear to be prepared to continue fighting.   
      
   Legitimate Target   
      
   As combatants, they can be considered legitimate targets, and it is not   
   necessarily a violation of IHL or the UCMJ to engage and kill them.   
      
   In summary, if a smuggler's boat crew exits their disabled boat with personal   
   weapons and appears to be prepared to continue fighting, they can be   
   considered legitimate targets and are not necessarily protected from attack.   
      
   Who said the "pleasure boaters" couldn't have machine guns and train them on   
   the aircraft?   
      
   Ummm... no one.   
      
   Also, who said they were "disabled" or wounded? If you disable a tank on the   
   battlefield and the occupants climb out, are they subject to being killed?   
      
   Of course. (see above)   
      
   Also... there is no specific rule in the UCMJ or IHL that explicitly prohibits   
   killing wounded combatants on the battlefield.   
      
   In summary, there is no explicit rule prohibiting the killing of wounded   
   combatants on the battlefield.   
      
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   "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition   
      
   All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.   
      
   "Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has   
   been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the   
   point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."   
      
   Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the   
   Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or   
   stages:   
      
   "In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The   
   president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were   
   all it took to change the world."   
      
   "The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's   
   vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of   
   hyperbole."   
      
   "As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from   
   reality."   
      
   The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk   
   opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump   
   announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would   
   suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS.   
   There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be   
   received positively by TDSers.   
      
   The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early   
   2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-   
   night comics and nothing more.   
      
   Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first   
   coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003.   
   The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in   
   otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay -   
   the very existence of George W. Bush."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)