[levinb]

As someone who disdains hyperbolic, motivated framings of everything in the news cycle, I normally don't like to use words like that. But, it was interesting to see the news discuss the "first time since world war two" component of this event, that by WWII standards, would have been seen as a cowardly violation of the rules of war.

The were in allied water, on a regularly scheduled drill, unarmed.

[JumpCrisscross]

> that by WWII standards, would have been seen as a cowardly violation of the rules of war

Source? Torpedoing anything with the enemy flag, down to civilian boats and merchant marines, was normalized by centuries of precedent by WWII.

[defrost]

  “failing to do everything possible to rescue those aboard is certainly a war crime,” as the Second Geneva Convention requires militaries to take all possible measures to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded, and sick.

[JumpCrisscross]

What are you quoting?

[tptacek]

"the co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ New Internationalism Project".

[defrost]

Ahh, cheers for that - busy morning & I failed to circle back.

This instance is hardly clear cut .. I put more effort into this peer comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559796

[OutOfHere]

It was the first time for the US since WWII. Other countries have used them in combat over the years since WWII. He couldn't even get that right.