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Justice does not permit punishment based on what someone might do.
Mary Anne — (archived)

This is true, according to the legal and ethical traditions of the West, no matter how atrocious the character of the person suspected of possible future wrong.

To cling to the fiction that this is allowable undermines what makes Western civilization worthy of its heritage.

We were told that Saddam had weapons, because that was something that could be punished, to justify a war. This was false.

Now we are expected to believe that the mere suspicion that he might have begun something at a future time was enough justification. It's not.

Freedom can't be won by abandonment of the structures that support it, and freedom can't be given. It must be claimed.

If we sacrifice our principles to our fear, terror wins and the West is lost. We will have given it up.

Re: the "preoccupation" with the current situation: How many of Saddam's past victims will be resurrected by continuing to use their deaths to justify the deaths of more of their countrymen?

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