How Would They Set the Rules of Engagement?

THIS com­ment to the Instapun­dit Blog has me won­der­ing.  Appar­ently the oper­a­tors with the NGO’s and the UN think it is hor­ri­ble when an Amer­i­can sol­dier or Marine does some­thing to help somebody.

What would these sav­iors have the mil­i­tary peo­ple do?  If a Marine comes upon the prover­bial lit­tle girl with her kitty up in a tree he mustn’t help her.  So should he

• ignore her and pro­ceed as if he hadn’t seen her?
• shoot kitty?
• shoot the lit­tle girl?

Those would be the options, wouldn’t they?

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