Suck it up. There are some people here who believe a grave injustice is being perpetrated right before our eyes in a sick, Satanistic manner. That's not small.
Furthermore, people like you guys who speak in generalities like 'lose the battle to win the war' dehumanize the victim here. She is an innocent person suffering a tortuous death.
And lastly the Bush brothers abrogated their Constitutional authority to preserve the life of a Florida and US citizen.
Yes, the debate is getting old and it's getting heated, but this is the way it's going to be for a while. Maybe you should step away from FR and read the US Constitution for a while (perhaps you should look at Article III).
See, you are haranging us.
To recognize that winning this battle through measures beyond what has already been done risks losing the broader culture war we are currently involved is simple truth. If you want to believe that the truth dehumanizes Terri, that's your choice.
But I never said that this battle was irrelevant. I said this was a battle worth fighting. But, the broader picture is that we are engaged in a war with a judiciary that has made itself the law. If we throw everything we've got into this battle, we'll have nothing with which to fight future, potentially even more important, battles.
It is easy to play armchair general and say what you believe the president and the governor should do while accusing others of speaking in generalities while missing the broader point. But remember, you are not sitting in their seats. You are not responsible for taking a look at the broader picture. You do not have to face responsibility for the actions that would be taken. You do not have to consider how actions in this case might affect other actions in other matters at the moment. You do not have to take into account how drastic action might cause grave harm to the GOP in the 2006 Congressional elections.
Like I said, the battle is worth fighting. It is not, however, worth sacrificing all future battles over. That does not dehumanize Terri. It acknowledges that an injustice has been done and that we cannot fix it immediately. What we can do, though, is prevent it from ever happening again.