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Some common sense concepts.
1. If your enemy conducts itself according to decent laws and customs of war, then they should be afforded decent treatment when captured.
2. If your enemy doesn't conduct itself according to decent laws and customs of war, then when they are captured you may execute them or if there is reason to believe they have information which would be valuable to your war effort, you may do whatever is needed to get that information out of them.
So, since it is known that the current enemies (Islamists) do not conduct themselves in a decent and proper way on the battlefield, it is perfectly ok to shoot them on sight.
We're not going to win this war by putting all the poor misunderstood jihadis in a cosy prison with access to Qur'ans (ie, the source of the reason they fight in the first place) and halal food.
A war against Islamists is won by killing the enemy and giving them a reason not to fight you, not by affording them phony human rights. If they don't behave like humans, they don't get human rights. It's a simple concept to understand.
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