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To: KonKilo who wrote (72162)	6/14/2008 2:51:17 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542881

Suppose for a moment that those in charge WANTED a military approach and were willing to fabricate and cherry-pick evidence to support the case for it. The questions we'd need to ask next would take us in a very different direction. Not really. Whether the key party to this was gaming the system or not, we still have the conceptual question about whether this is war or crime and the conceptual and practical implications of that. I'm way less interested in the political dance than in the underlying essence. I think the dance is a distraction. You'd have us declare war on an individual, or a group of individuals? Good grief! I was merely pointing out that you didn't complete your argument. As for war and non-nations, I we were on a war footing against the Barbary Pirates. They were not unlike AQ. There is some precedent for war against other than nations-states. Should thinking on that not be developed to see if it offers something useful? Seems to me that logic has not been the driving force in this "War on Terror". I'm all in favor of logic. I agree there has been a breakdown.