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To: KonKilo who wrote (72163)	6/14/2008 12:32:00 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) of 542011

If so, with whom? In the crazy kaleidoscope of our changing security policies, the enemy has been defined as extremists, militants, jihadists, terrorists, AQ, other violent Islamic groups and so on. The fallacy of saying we can come up with a legal solution to all these "combatants" is the utter impossibility of defining them as a group. Right now, anyone with a militant viewpoint who might consider violence against others could be included. And we are at "war" with that universe of people. How will we ever define victory? An absence of violence? An absence of militancy? An absence of antiwestern violence worldwide? That will never happen. It's impossible. So the "war" definition is absurd on its face, and conducting legal proceedings on that premise is equally absurd. Someone in DC needs to sit down, admit that and create a new body of coherent law for dealing with terrorism instead of this pseudo-contrived BS we have now.

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