I came back to the thread today to get a gander at all the people "on this forum" who "common[ly]" accuse Pollard of having caused the deaths of Soviet agents. Where are they? Have they taken off from posting in honor of Memorial Day or something?
Like I said, this looks like a charge (with a very LeCarre "blue stripe" angle) that Loftus manufactured against Pollard just to clear him of it. It taints everything else Loftus says about Pollard.
I notice in some other posts you are taking the tried and true Pollard defense of disproportional punishment. If other spies can get off with a slap on the wrist, why not him? Now this is a staple of the Pollard defenders, raised every time his name is mentioned.
Pollard defenders need to ask themselves what role they have played in keeping this cretin behind bars for all these years. From the git-go they have aggressively and unabashedly kept Pollard's case in the news, jockeying it to the center of Israeli/US relations at every opportunity. They have denounced loudly and viciously any American official who they deem unsympathetic to Pollard's cause, and done the same to broad swaths of the American people who have the temerity to express distaste for a traitor.
The aggressive tactics of Pollard's defenders have not worked, but instead have served only to keep the wound open by constantly pick, pick, picking at it.
You need to look in the archives, at Pollard threads, probably :).
I notice in some other posts you are taking the tried and true Pollard defense of disproportional punishment.
I'm not so much a "Pollard defender" as I'm wondering why there is disproportional punishment (and there is) in this one case. That, of course, leads to wondering if all is on the level here. If not, we have a miscarriage of justice, possibly. Are you arguing that this would be a good thing?