<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Justin wrote:</DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR> </DIV> <DIV>> Luke and other Americans who are not used to living with it, as Indians, </DIV> <DIV>> Irraelis, the Spanish, the Brits, and others are, find this </DIV> <DIV>> confession intolerable. </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No, but I do believe that intellectual honesty compels one to make that confession before proposing police action as a "solution" to the threat posed by Al Qaeda.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>> They think there must be something large and loud we can do that will end it once </DIV> <DIV>> and for all. They are wrong. We have to try in the way </DIV> <DIV>> appropriate to free societies to fight these criminal activities. It is better if, in doing  </DIV> <DIV>> so, we do not demolis h the liberties we have painful won. That at least is not so </DIV> <DIV>> hard. jks </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If a state attacked the US with the force of Al Qaeda and appeared capable of inflicting much heavier damage in the near future, would you demand that we extend due process to the leaders and troops of that state?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>