"I went to school with a Captain who started the Air Force laser eye protection project. If memory serves, his name was Mike Cox and he was stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB until 1986. He told me the inspiration for the project came from an incident in the Army. An idiot took a laser target designator and deliberately shined it at people. Several of them experienced temporary eye damage. They conducted a test where they quickly flashed a laser across a test subject's eyes. It took him several minutes before he could focus again. Had he been a fighter pilot on a bombing run or any pilot trying to land, he would've been in big trouble."

So you're telling us that the US military did research into weapons banned under the Geneva convention?

Maybe they didn't know what it says, like those guards at Abu Ghraib?

Perhaps it should be a compulsory part of the training for all US military - what IS forbidden under international conventions and what is unethical or immoral....