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To: D. Long who wrote (80421)	3/8/2003 6:33:53 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Again, if you allowed this as a loophole, it's a loophole big enough to drive a truck through, and makes the treaty meaningless. The real reason we didn't accord the captured Taliban Geneva rights, is because they didn't hold any of our soldiers, and because we totally destroyed them. If the Taliban had survived, and held 600 of our soldiers captive when the war ended, then the U.S. would have respected the Geneva Convention, and there would have been a prisoner exchange long ago. It comes down to a "might makes right" argument.