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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady
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Originally Posted by Jewish Medrashic Quotation
"Kol ham’racheim ‘al ha’achzarim sofo l’hisachzeir ‘al harachmanim" -- "one who is merciful to the cruel will ultimately be cruel to the merciful."
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Aha! :P
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Originally Posted by Aesop
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
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this one is as well nice and ambigous.
As for the GC. It was crafted in response to the huge scale of modernized warfare. When millions of men were conscripted, low of morale from the beginning, and probably likely to surrender at the first given opportunity.
I agree with TAL that the convention does not cover the kind of terrorists we see today. But I still don't think that Guantanamo is solving anything, it just shows the predicament that the war on terror put the USA in. What to do with these terrorists? Well, for starters, if they are terrorists, why no judge them for their crimes? That they receive no trial is to me the biggest mystery of all in this. Trial them, kill them (which is judging them at least) or release them.