Finally, someone is saying what we've all been thinking:

The British Defence Secretary John Reid has called for changes in the rules of war in the face of "a deliberate regression towards barbaric terrorism by our opponents."

We are not fighting a war between states. Look at Iraq - the official "war" ended in April of 2003. Our enemies are not sporting the uniforms and stripes of state military. They do not hesitate to kill medical officers, women, children, Padres. They take hostages, not prisoners. They murder innocents.

They are handsome well-groomed young men in clothing from Gap who fly planes into boardrooms.

This is not war in the way we have been taught it.

The Geneva Conventions, he said, were created more than half a century ago, when the world was almost unrecognisable to today's citizens.

"Those conventions dealt with important aspects of the conduct of war - how the sick and injured, and prisoners of war are treated; and the obligations on states during their military occupation of another state.

"I believe we need now to consider whether we - the international community in its widest sense - need to re-examine these conventions. If we do not, we risk continuing to fight a 21st Century conflict with 20th Century rules."

Not to say that we should stoop to their level of debauchery, but we should certainly be willing to accept places like Guantanamo, and not get our panties in a twist if naked men are piled into pyramids. Remember, the inmates at Guantanamo eat better than you and I.