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"Pollards actions exposed US spies in the eastern bloc that were there to undermine Soviet power. Under the soviets, that could be considered terrorism post 9/11."

Not even close. Spy's are legitimate military targets. Exposing them, while certainly bad for the US, is part of a counter spy's job. Pollard killed absolutely NO innocent civilians.

"I knew you'd try to correlate my comments with justifying terrorism, such juvenile tactics."

If you equate the killing of innocent civilians as the PA does with the legitimate killing of terrorists and military targets as western countries do, then of course you are trying to justify terrorism. Why else would you try such a pathetic ploy? That tactic may work over at DU but it doesn't fly here. You might as well give it up.

lol, please.... you are saying you'd allow an enemy of the state to be alive and help our rivals?

Countless enemies of the state are alive and helping our rivals. Many live and work in the US. Whether they are punished or not depends on what they do.

If they kill innocent people like cowardly terrorists, then of course they will be executed.

If they attack a US military target, they will be captured and held until hostilities are over, as is the case of those in Guantanamo Bay.

If they recruit terrorists or advocate terrorism they will, hopefully, be deported, and if they simply equate the terroristic PA authority with the legitimate actions of western governments as you do, they will be tolerated.

We are not murderous thugs who execute people simply because they are our enemies. That is how the PA operates.

If you equate the killing of innocent civilians as the PA does with the legitimate killing of terrorists and military targets as western countries do, then of course you are trying to justify terrorism. Why else would you try such a pathetic ploy? That tactic may work over at DU but it doesn't fly here. You might as well give it up.

On a side note while the US does not deliberately target civilians their is no such thing as a "Humane War". In all wars civilians get killed and many times in massive numbers ex. Hiroshima. To think that you can have a war without civilians casualties is foolish.

Nearly all the enemies we have fought in the past have shown no regard for civilian casualties, and until recently civilian casualties did not count over the lives of our troops. The problem with the current War is we are more concerned about damaging a Mosque then killing the enemy using the Mosque as a base.