Here are thoughts of a liberal writer published in a conservative magazine. I think he probably is a liberal because he doesn't appear to know that killing the German prisoner in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" would not have been a war crime. The reason is that soldiers who have no means of handling prisoners are not obligated to endanger themselves by turning prisoners loose. This is because what happened later in the movie is, in fact, a possibility. As they say, war is hell. Liberals have a lot of confusion about the Geneva Convention.