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To: bentway who wrote (161513)	5/6/2005 9:22:04 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The italian journalist was a famous kidnap victim. How many times does this happen to non-famous, ordinary Iraqis? Two or three a week? You give 19 year old high school educated young people 8 to 12 weeks of training; you give them guns and other lethal weapons; you put them in an environment where they could get killed; you give them a mission to find the "bad guys" and to kill them. What do you think? Can things go wrong? Can bad things happen? Can mistakes be made? Can we give the wrong type of kids the ability to kill? The really bad thing that happens is that when things go wrong, there are people that refuse to see that things went wrong. They will not only defend the good things that happen, but they insist on defending all the bad things that happen. You really can't blame the kids that make the mistakes (if mistakes are made). We put them in that situation. But to defend eveything that goes wrong (when it does go wrong) - that is the real evil. It is the grown up civilians that have to take responsibility. You want authority - then you have to be accountable when things screw up. If you are not accountable, then don't become a cheerleader to say that when bad things happen, that nothing bad happened. Evil is evil. You can't wish for it to go away. You just can't change the definition of evil.