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To: Dale Baker who wrote (72453)	6/16/2008 9:48:34 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542214

I don't recall the US ever invoking the laws of war regarding anything in the Cold War, do you? I remember only spies. That doesn't mean there weren't other than spies. Or maybe we just called every one we captured a spy rather than a terrorist. What we did with them was keep them for a while and then exchange them. Exchanging doesn't seem to be in play in this war, although maybe that could be pursued. Hard to exchange when there's no central authority on the other side and they tend to behead rather than keep for future exchange. Seems to me that might be an interesting analysis for some war college student. Now we have a vague war against "Terror" That concept was ridiculous from the get-go. Time has not made it any less so. Perhaps we have gotten the war out of our system what with Afghanistan and Iraq and just being tired of it and we could simply redefine it to a "clash of civilizations" or a "cultural difference" and just drop the war paradigm. I mentioned earlier that it seems like our detainees are from that original sweep. I don't know that we're still collecting them, at least not in volume. Do you know? If we're not still collecting them. We could make this go away much more easily than if it's an ongoing process.