I agree.
But I'm not certain the next round will be fought in the Middle East.
Which comes around to the point I'm not doing very good at making, and I will try again.
"Rules of war" are ridiculous.
War is the means of resolving conflict when the rules are thrown out the window. War crimes are just a means of singling out behavior that the victor doesn't like about the loser. If Muslims won a war with the West, they would re-write War Crimes so that it was a War Crime to be Jewish, Christian, or Atheist. It would also be a War Crime for a woman to take up arms against a man. But we Westerners are eager for things like hot Jewish IDF soldiers or that Kurd all-female unit. Partly because hawt chicks, and partly because we KNOW it absolutely infuriates the Muslims to think of being killed by a woman.
The "rules of war" we think are in effect now are not going to be the same if the West ever loses a war with the Middle East, or China, or Space Aliens. Those factions won't take it easy on uniformed soldiers vs un-uniformed irregulars/spies. They will wipe the Western ideology off the map the second they have victory and Allah or The Party or The Hive Mind will become the entity which takes offense at the actions of the losers. Geneva Conventions? Geneva was nuked, or hit with an asteroid, or Allah burned it in His holy wrath (peace be upon His name).
I don't care about rules of war. I care about who is right.
If party A is on party B's lawn, actively trying to take *expletive deleted*it and kill people... party B can pull out the Garand and get to work. I don't care about the uniform or the rules, and I'm going to take a lackadaisical disinterest in ethics complaints from party A after the fact.