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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (130051)	4/25/2004 1:41:39 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 281500

<<<they can do a proximate diagnosis by noticing who is armed and shooting at them.>>> This not John Ford and/or the stylized depiction of Gun Fight at the OK Corrale. War is messy. War is a blunt instrument. It is difficult for 19 year old kids to decide who is good, bad, terrorist or innocent sometimes in matters of seconds. We normally have a very expensive rule of law process where the courts deliberate over quite some time after hearing the prosecution and defense presentations to decide guilt or innocense. To put kids in that situation, where not only could they make a mistake and kill innocent people, worse they can make a mistake and get themselves killed should be a very difficult decision. Either way, it is a terrible, terrible thing. It is even terrible when you have to kill an enemy combatant. Who is to say how the enemy combatant put him/herself in that situation. They could have been conscripted, coerced, or lied to, or deceived into combat status. I am glad I don't have to make that decision to send children to war.