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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (303299)9/19/2006 6:16:55 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1573004
 
re: But requiring full trials for captured enemy means one of two things, either you are going to not capture many enemy (you just kill them instead), or you are trying to fight a battle with both arms and both legs tied behind your back. You simply can't fight a war if your going to require full trials for captured enemy.

Or the third option; you prosecute them if you have probable cause of a war crime. If not you return them to their native country. We managed to do this stuff in previous wars... and got a lot of respect as a result or our humanitarian attitudes.

The fact that the "war on terror" is really a "war on ideas" and can't be fought with the military is another subject altogether. But it doesn't negate and shouldn't reverse the progress the world has made toward civilized behaviour.
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