There are parts of the world that are anti-US, but it's not actually EVERYBODY outside North America....
Cheers Russell C. I'm not assaulting Brett - but I'm _tired_ of this. No one - and I mean _no one_ who has accused the United States of acting improperly with regard to these prisoners has presented a shred of evidence. What I've heard on this list are constant accusations and condemnations. When Dan and I (among others) presented fairly closely argued defenses of what was happening based on the actual texts of the Geneva Conventions, we were ignored or told that we were being obnoxious because we were so presumptuous as to back up our opinions with actual facts. God forbid someone should actually go ahead and make a counterargument to support their opinion. Brett's post, if I understood it correctly, was a suggestion that American soldiers would now be treated improperly because we had debated how we would treat soldiers who are not actually protected by the Conventions. Well, American soldiers have been treated improperly in just about every war we've ever fought. This constant assumption - that everything that we do is wrong, and everything our enemies do is a reaction to our own supposed malfeasance - gets to me after a while. I don't think everybody outside North America is anti-American - but God knows I wonder about this list often enough. Gautam
