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To: Road Walker who wrote (303689)	9/19/2006 6:27:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1572965

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. We did that after the previous wars were over. During it during an active war isn't a third option, its the 2nd that I already mentioned, " trying to fight a battle with both arms and both legs tied behind your back.". Well maybe just one arm if you can safely assume that their own country will keep them prisoner. But if we can assume that there their status is unchanged, they are still locked up indefinitely without requiring a criminal trial. But it doesn't negate and shouldn't reverse the progress the world has made toward civilized behaviour. Holding captured enemy combatants is civilized behavior. The uncivilized version is to kill them, or perhaps enslave them. In a different sense any war is uncivilized, but if that's the sense your using the term than we haven't made a ton of progress towards "civilized behavior" and probably will not do so for a long time.

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