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To: marktwain
I believe that we should do all we can to support failed suicide bombers and to try to rehabilitate them.

What?????

57 posted on 11/13/2005 11:57:12 AM PST by Osage Orange (I'd like to buy Bill Clinton for what he's worth, and sell him for what he thinks he'll bring.)
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To: Osage Orange
I believe that we should do all we can to support failed suicide bombers and to try to rehabilitate them.

"What?????"

One of the most effective tactics in the war in Iraq has been to take captured terrorists and have them confess publicly about how they were used by their masters to commit crimes and kill innocent Iraqis.

By "rehabilitate" I mean that they should be "turned" in an intell sense, and become assets of our side to use against their former masters.

Consider how much we gain if one suicide bomber has second thoughts about committing suicide and murder, hesitates, and is captured. If we can "turn" them, we offer doubt to others who may learn of them. We offer hope to those who are coerced into the service of our enemies, and we discredit the entire philosophy and premise of Al Queda.

In a practical sense, creating doubt in the suicide bombers may well mean dozens of lives saved for each bomber that does not complete their mission.

We need to offer them, the ones who fail, more than a quick trip to the cemetery.

Women suicide bombers seem more easily "turned" than young men. I think our efforts could be especially fruitful there.

The capture of this woman should be used to our best advantage, not for some cheap and transient vengence.

58 posted on 11/13/2005 12:10:42 PM PST by marktwain
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