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To: GST who wrote (128043)	4/1/2004 11:38:26 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We have the military capability to turn Afghanistan into a parking lot with intercontinental missiles -- but we don't do that. The US hasn't done that, it will not do that, you wouldn't support it, and I wouldn't support it. Not much point in bringing it up unless you are saying that the actions is similar to firing a Hellfire in to a car occupied by an Al Qaeda or Hammas terrorist leader and that idea is nonsense. But even if you could make a case that it is a question of which method would cost fewer innocent lives, the fact remains that to kill somebody who is available for capture is murder. In a war, even a terrorist war killing an enemy that you theoretically could capture is not murder. Killing a surrendering enemy could be considered murder but Yassin wasn't surrendering. Tim