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Old 01-08-2009, 10:09 AM   #36
EarnedStripes44
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Originally Posted by spence View Post
Underdogs often get to play by different rules.

-spence
Exactly. "Free socieities" must be necessarily constrained by their own civilized faculties - the rule of law, due process, human rights - when engaged in warfare against "terrorists". An Israeli judge framed it this way: "in defense of our way of life we sometimes have to fight with one hand bound behind our back, but let there be no question as to who has the upper hand".
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