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A comment on Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident. Parent comment

Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident by StavrosK on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:40AM (#11840160)
Wouldn't war be so much better if you could rely on the spared enemy effectively "retiring"? That way you could safely spare people's lives, and it would be very sportsmanlike.
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Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident by elcapitan on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:51AM (#11840180)
I guess in today's kind of warfare you would have to send them a letter that they have been spared from a strike.
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Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident by zb on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:54AM (#11841545)
That used to be a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole#Prisoners_of_war

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Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident by ced on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:11PM (#11842547)
"The United States does not authorize any Military Service member to sign or enter into any such parole agreement."

Is there any reason for that?

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