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> Speaking for myself (but I think for others as well) it is not
> the actions of the administration but the way in which they
> presented them that we find disturbing and counter-productive.
That speaks for me, too.
> The sense that the administration will do what it wants to do
> because it knows what is best and we the people (both inside and
> outside the US) should just trust them and shut up about it. A
> little reasonable politicing (informing congress and foreign
> governments of our plans and asking their advice) would not have
> resulted in any signficant delay or change in the policy but it
> would have made it easier to accept.
Or even acknowledgment that it is the circumstances of national and
international danger, not the citizenship status of the terrorists, justify
a different process. This debate should be about circumstances under which
it is appropriate to impose different standards of justice, but the rhetoric
is about who deserves U.S. justice or not. The latter is morally
indefensible, in my opinion.
Nick
