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To: Lane3 who wrote (121517)	6/22/2005 3:53:19 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) of 793725

For example, prisoners are supposed to be returned to their homeland when the war is over. When will the war on terrorism be over? Perhaps not in the lifetime of these prisoners. So, if we're having issues over Gitmo now, what will be the pressure be after we've confined them for ten or twenty years? The risk that they could be killed or imprisoned for a very long time is presumably one that the combatants consciously assumed. We are within our rights in holding them until they are no longer a potential danger to us. I refuse to shed a tear for them. Are they entitled to humane treatment? Absolutely, as set forth in the various GCs. But not a bit more than that, and for so long as the WOT can reasonably be said to be in existence. And anyone who is involved in treating the prisoners in a manner which falls below the standards required by the GCs should be punished accordingly. I don't think there's been much temporizing. I think this has been clearly the position for some time. I really wonder at all the hullabaloo about all this. Seems like an issue which can be dealt with in a fairly business-like manner. The problem, of course, is that there will always be breaches of the GCs requirements whenever jailers and interrogators are dealing with a group which is passionately devoted to our elimination. This goes with the territory. If appropriate safeguards and training are in place, we can reduce the breaches to a tolerable level, perhaps even eliminate them altogether. If only the other side was a bit as civilized as we are. Perhaps we'd see no video-taped head-hacking. But no one is supposed to suggest that there is a huge and bleakly ironic discrepancy here, so I'll cease and desist........ What's your solution? Let them go so they can be hailed as heroes and can start anew? Surely not.

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