  War is HELL. All is fair in war. Anything and everything that gets the job done, ends justify the means in true warfare. War is Hell on Earth. You must understand. The art of war...anything goes, nothing is sacred, whatever gets the job done, unleash the hounds of Hell.  NO. AN ARYAN ARMY MUST NOT TORTURE OR RAPE. NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. MUST NOT TARGET INNOCENT CIVILIANS. MUST NEVER HARM WOMEN, CHILDREN OR THE ELDERLY, UNLESS THEY ARE COMBATANTS. A WHITE ARMY, DARE I SAY, MUST NOT COMMIT GENOCIDE. FORCED RELOCATION IS ONE THING, GENOCIDE IS ANOTHER. AND BTW, GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE WOULD HAVE RESIGNED OR DIED BEFORE HE WOULD ALLOW HIS TROOPS DO SUCH THINGS.  I didn't say that people Should do things like that, or that I condoned of it...It shouldn't be done and is completely horrible, no doubt. But... thus is the Hellish and undeniable nature of total warfare, that is all I am saying. There has never been a war in the history of mankind where innocent children, women and civilians have not been killed by the dozens. There has never been a war in history where women were not raped by the dozens or that civilians homes were not destroyed, etc... The most horrible things imaginable can, will and do take place in war time, it is unavoidable. The officers can give the grunts all the orders, guidelines and rules of engagement they want..but..in the field..these things can tend to go right out the window, these aforementioned atrocities are sure to happen.     I don't condone or advocate such unspeakable acts, I'm only saying that these things happen in all wars, never fails. So to say the IRA is/was evil because they caused some children or civilians to be killed...is being naive. Just like saying how evil groups like Al Qaeda are because they caused the death of a few thousand civilians, including children is being naive, because when you think of it...the U.S. Federal government is responsible for the killings of many many thousands of more non-combatants, including children than any of those terrorist and freedom fighter groups ever have. For instance, the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima which annihalated many thousands of children and civilians. The intentional bombings of civilian neighborhoods in Germany during the World Wars, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Yugoslavia, all over the world. I surely was not advocating such behaviour. But however, as for torture...I myself do condone of torture of enemy combatants in a war scenario, of course, sometimes it can be necessary.    By the way...I don't care what General Lee would've done... and ... he did surrender... and his side did lose the war... so maybe he should have been more ruthless afterall! We'd all be singing Dixie right now! :p Just kidding...