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To: Lou Weed who wrote (190332)	6/27/2006 4:03:14 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If you become a monster to fight the monster, you've effectively lost the battle. When the rule of law is ineffective, the only law that matters is the one in which you come out ahead of your enemies. And if you want to defeat a monster, you have to think like one, and understand what he fears most. But where I think we could agree is that if we irrevocably lose our humanity and unable to restore our previous civilization, then I would concur. But we committed brutality on a wide-spread scale in WWII and we emerged stronger and more democratic. So it's all in how it's applied and understand that what we've done was necessary under the circumstances, but not a behavior we want to applaud. I don't advocate it, but I want the enemy to know that we're willing to "waiver" the use of physical/mental torture so that he understands that he's not safe from it, should he not cooperate. That he's not going to be able to commit his own atrocities in the belief that the worse that will happen to him is he'll be well fed, rested, and no physical threats to his person. Hawk