"Who's going to clamp down on the terrorists and force them to adhere to International law? Well, who?"

Sometime close to 1970 I talked with a Young Republican who couldn't see why the police have to obey the law when the criminals don't.

Give up Doug? It's because the police aren't supposed to be criminals.

We are not supposed to imitate the actions of Al Qaeda. Americans are supposed to be different.

We would have been wrong to set up extermination camps for Nazis after WWII, even if they had extermination camps themselves.

We could probably have tortured a confession from that young lawyer on the west coast who was jailed because of a misread fingerprint found at the Spanish train bombing. Would that have been ok with you? After all, the terrorists who bombed thje train have no respect for law, and the FBI positively identified the fingerprint. For a while. For long enough to have done a lot of damage to him.

And it may well have been "typical lawyer stuff," but what kind of government asks its lawyers to justify torture?

clint