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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (200487)	8/31/2006 10:22:09 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (3) of 281500

<Am I understanding you correctly?> No -- not even close. We have a moral responsibility to intervene in cases of genocide and should have entered WWII for this reason rather than wait to be attacked. If attacked, we also have the right and indeed the responsibility to defend ourselves as was plainly evident when we took action in Afghanistan. What we do not have the right to do is to commit war crimes. Nor should we begin by denying or justifying our war crimes while pointing a finger. First we should do what we alone can do -- stand tall for the values that make America a great nation. Dishonoring America by resorting to torture and committing war crimes does not strengthen America -- it puts a dagger through its heart. Rule of law, human rights, freedom of speech, and democracy must at all costs be protected at home, otherwise we are just monkeys with bigger clubs.

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