From: Adam Flinton 

Randall Parker wrote:

> I second George Sherwood's comments.
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> Also, you seem to be missing the point on why we treat the Gitmo
> prisoners as we do: We don't want to be killed by terrorists. The
> international law crowd have nothing to offer us for our own safety.
> Keeping terrorists isolated and interrogating them for useful
> information both serve to make us more secure.
>

What rubbish. How the hell are you going to find out & catch these
people eithout international legal help? Are you going to invade & take
over every country where you think some al-qaeda people might be?

> I think the law should protect us. I do not support treaties and dubious
> interpretations of international law that make us less secure.
>

Why spell us lower case when you mean US?


> Also, what is the point of setting an example that will not be followed
> in any way that redounds to our benefit? I don't see the example that
> you would have us make as being morally better than what we are
> currently doing.
>

Yup, due process, fair trials etc are so much fluff in the wind. Where
people have been found totally innocent are those who kidnapped them &
took them to cuba going to be prosecuted for kidnapping?

Adam


> Phil Payne wrote:
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>>> In the Korean War ..
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>>> In the Vietnam War ..
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>> So it now takes four wrongs to make a right?  I thought the USA prided
>> itself on setting a good example?
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