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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2362)1/17/2003 8:20:31 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15987
 
Let me retract some of my statements.. Call it being too sober on a Friday night or something, but I read Roth's comments without the "far from"..

Makes a significant difference in meaning.. :0)

But I still believe that we're preserving the human rights of the detainees.. We may not be deciding their ultimate status yet (criminal prosecution or release), but they're not being beaten, starved, or threatened with death..

They are the ones who took up arms against the United States (and the civilized world).. No one just picked them up off the street for petty theft..

Hawk