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To: carranza2 who wrote (121557)	6/22/2005 6:14:04 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793731

The reason I have some doubts is that I know of any statements by the government which would give anyone any reason to think that the incarceration was for a specified or even limited, if not specifically described, period of time. Our instinctive default is that incarceration is for a specific period. This is because it's all we've experienced. In the criminal justice system, we have sentences of specified length to be served and then you're released. In war we have an unknown but still specific period of incarceration set at the duration of the war, which has always been a few years at most, and then you're repatriated. We are in new territory here, outside our experience, and most people's brains do not naturally stretch out to explore new territory. It mostly never occurs to them. And if they do and run into something like indefinite incarceration, they scoot right back to their comfort zone to avoid the dissonance and insecurity. In this new scenario, we wouldn't even know where to repatriate them. Do we send them to where we found them or do we send them to their home? Maybe one or the other or both countries wouldn't want them. Then what do we do? This is a relatively small item, but these things need to be thunk thorough and detailed. Wonder if anyone is working on that one, let alone planning to share the determination with the likes of you and me...