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To: kumar who wrote (80416)	3/8/2003 5:22:00 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

If we are going to use this hair-splitting and careful re-definitions, and creating new catagories ("unlawful combatants"), as an excuse to do whatever we want for as long as we want, to the people we capture, then other nations can and will do the same thing. The result is chaos, and the further breakdown of international standards of conduct. Which will hurt the U.S. more than any other nation. In Afghanistan, we made war on a nation, and that nation had a government and an army. And for us to say that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply, is pure sophistry. And Unilateralism. It is just more of our arrogance, telling the world that the rules don't apply to us.