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Current Events » in reply to Saw that coming ten miles away.

I was counting on it.

I figured you'd anticipate the obvious next rhetorical move. Kinda like chess sometimes, isn't it? I'm sure you plot out some of these exchanges several moves ahead, just like I do.

My next move doesn't take much brilliance, though. The counterargument that's current is commonsensical: If we take the position that combatants representing entities that don't abide by the Geneva Convention aren't entitled to its protections, what happens to our own soldiers when we opt-out or "reinterpret" the Geneva Convention the way the Bush Administration proposes? That way lies madness! But, oh, that's right, it's an election year, nothing's insane in an election year...

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