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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (17459)	1/29/2002 7:14:46 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Good to see you Raymond. In this case I think Molly is wrong: >>And there, it seems to me, is the nub of the problem - simple fairness, or the appearance of simple fairness. To at least be seen to respect other people's opinions is so much to our advantage and costs us so little that we're nuts not to do it.<<< She did not venture once into imagining what possible motive there could be for a seemingly bad PR move. Inspectors and diplomats have not found any clear violation of the Geneva Convention. Our struggle is not against nations, who signed on to international law. It is against free agents who've signed on to nothing, who justify attacks like the WTC ones, etc. The attackers are fanatics at the extreme, like Japanese kamikaze pilots. Reason is foreign to those so extreme. The purpose of the policies in Guantanamo appears to be intimidation. Wanna live your lives without privacy? Wondering what we have planned next? Keep wondering. Or attack us and find out firsthand. Go ahead. Much has been claimed about how the US has appeared weak to the Islamists. Conducting a devastatingly precise and effective war disputes that notion. Lining up former enemies as allies displays that few safe harbors remain for terrorists. A cavalier public attitude towards prisoner treatment and to common conventions (coupled, btw, with their humane treatment) certainly displays an arrogance as well as the power to resist its critics. Which is precisely the purpose. Strength, and a warning to others: as ye do unto us, so can we use ways to do you one better....you too can enjoy dangling in the sun. Feel lucky, punk? It won't alleviate their hate towards us. But they won't again attack us under any misimpression that we are weak. It's purpose appears to be to serve as a deterrent. Seen any suicide bombers stateside lately?

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