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To: Txsleuth
You are right...and one major problem with a political solution is...you have to trust the people you are dealing with to keep their word.

No, trust but verify. Any international agreement that depends on trust is deeply flawed.

181 posted on 01/14/2007 8:00:13 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

ah...correction noted.

The verify part is especially hard in the case of these enemies...because where do we post our "embassy", and who is in charge for us to hold into account??

Just as there will be no peace treaty signed...like the useless one after the first Gulf War...the enemy is so dispersed worldwide..and so unstable.

I think we have a long way to go...and lots of new thinking to be done.

The fact that our own country cannot even agree on the ROE and the status of the captured enemy...and even what to CALL them....tells us the the whole country can NOT even pretend this is a war like any other that has been fought.

Once Washington and the American people FINALLY get that in their minds, MAYBE we can looks for solutions...but until then we are spinning our wheels.


188 posted on 01/14/2007 8:07:19 AM PST by Txsleuth (FREEPATHON TIME-Please become a monthly donor, or Dollar a Day donor.)
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