At Balkiniza­tion:

“The mil­i­tary has lived with” the Geneva Con­ven­tions pro­vi­sions “for 50 years and applied them to every con­flict, even against irreg­u­lar forces. Why are we sud­denly afraid now about the vague­ness of its terms?” asked Tom Mali­nowski, direc­tor of the Wash­ing­ton office of Human Rights Watch.