Oh, horse manure, PDQ. How's that for a variety of opinion?

I would love to know--not that there is any way to -- how many of these ex-prisoners would have gotten involved with terrorists on their return if they had never been interred in Gitmo in the first place. I would suspect it would be a much lower number.

The common thread of many of Bruce's postings is that others out there are doing awful things to us and we must strike back, get even, suppress them, overwhelm them with force, and so on.

The common thread that is omitted is any effort to understand what lies behind the animosity, or any enquiry on how to cure it. It may have escaped your attention that meeting protest with force does not resolve the protest, but merely suppresses it until it can come out.

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