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To: conservative physics

Shoo!


350 posted on 05/30/2006 8:50:44 AM PDT by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Coop
The Geneva convention is not a suicide pact for western civilization.

It is simply a statement of the rules we would like to play by when engaged in a war with an enemy. If the enemy doesn't want to play by those rules.... then we are no longer bound by them either. The whole idea that we have to play by the rules while our enemy doesn't is ludicrous!

If some country nukes New York city... do you think the Geneva convention is going to stop us from nuking one or all of their cities !?!

heck no!

by the same token, when the enemy we are fighting is purposely targeting our innocent civilians and killing them by the 1000's every day, we have absolutely no obligation to not target theirs.

When the enemy beheads every prisoner they take, what lunacy obliges us to treat our prisoners humanely?
357 posted on 05/30/2006 9:05:01 AM PDT by conservative physics
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