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To: JustTradeEm who wrote (80478)	3/8/2003 3:38:49 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

<Perhaps we should just house them all right next door to you !> There has not been a single serious response, to my raising the question of what we should be doing with the prisoners at Guantanamo. Just a lot of outrage, that I am asking the question. And more outrage, that I should call Guantanamo a "concentration camp". That's what posterity will call it. I could go along with breaking the rules against the interrogation of prisoners of war. But I cannot go along with keeping them in 6-by-8 cells for the rest of their lives. And I cannot go along with throwing out the window, all the rules/treaties/laws governing treatment of prisoners. We're going to be very sorry we set that precedent. This debate about Guantanamo, is really just a continuation of this Message 18548481 Americans like to think of themselves as better than all other nations. Other nations might do nasty things like set up concentration camps, and torture prisoners, and do ethnic cleansing. But that's other nations. We are the LandOfTheFreeAndTheBrave. "We don't do those things" is the reflexive response of Americans. And outrage, when they get told, "there is less difference between you and the Other nations, than you'd like to believe, and here is the evidence."