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Wounded Bear

(64,371 posts) Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:49 PM Friday

There is incentive for Iran not to notify anyone if they have captured our airman... [View all]

Instead of a propaganda coup, if they capture them and not tell anybody, the US continues the useless and dangerus rescue operations.

Would not be the first time an enemy used our "no one left behind" strategy against us.

For now, search and rescue ops must continue, I know.

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There is incentive for Iran not to notify anyone if they have captured our airman... [View all] Wounded Bear Friday OP

Again, the Geneva Convention -- which apparently both sides are disregarding -- requires notifications displacedvermoter Friday #1

Once the USA decided to ditch Marquis of Queensbury rules... ananda Friday #3

MS NOW just said on TV that Iran is a signatory of the Geneva Accords... Wounded Bear Friday #5

And for the purposes of that line of action, it doesn't make a difference to them RockRaven Friday #2

Hegseth said WE would "take no quarter" at the outset Klarkashton Friday #4

Yes and then Iran can shoot down the search and rescue planes. Irish_Dem Friday #6

Eventually use the pilot as a bargaining chip. Irish_Dem Friday #7