At 11:59 PM 10/17/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:

Torturing and murdering the innocent children of someone who may -- let's even stipulate a moment of malice -- have written an article that misquoted you is not exactly behavior that civilized society should applaud.

Depends. Males, including what are now called 'minors', of the defeated may be killed at will, according to the (admittedly archaic but still worshipped) texts of the dominant religions in places like US, Arabia, etc. According to the pissed off arabs, the US has been starving arab children. The US certainly hauled asian children out to the desert in the last official war. Just label them 'collateral damage', drop some vegetarian rations on them, and you can feel good about yourself while you count your cropdusters..