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To: Ilaine who wrote (45988)	5/21/2004 1:36:29 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793966

I do wish you'd explain how Abu Ghraib merits the steak comment I can explain it. Anti-terrorist wars are dirty wars. Even with discipline and standards, the army will not keep its hands lily white. Israel cares more about purity of arms (a term they use without irony) than any army in the world, but they have been forced into many morally dubious choices by an enemy that loves its own children much less than it hates them. The Palestinian have made a deliberate strategy of forcing the Israelis to kill Palestinian children or forcing them to watch their own children die. The Israelis are fighting in Rafah now because the choice is to let Hizbullah smuggle in anti-aircraft missiles and begin shooting down Israeli civilian jets (this has been attempted before, but the Security Services don't think they can stop future attempts if anti-aircraft missiles become widely available in the territories). That is realty. That is the kind of war we are fighting, and must fight, if we don't want to sit back and wait for the next 9/11. We need the mental toughness to think about these issues, not to shrink in horror or wallow in politically motivated accusations when somebody goes over the line.

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