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Rekna has a point in that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution talk about UNIVERSAL human rights, which we formed a government to protect. It may be less convenient, but we ought to hold those rights as universal in all cases - maybe that would help our public image. At any rate, I think that applying the stated American principles of human rights in all cases would be the patriotic thing to do - sort of a statement that we stand for something, and that ideal cannot be defeated, nor will we compromise what makes America American because we are afraid.
Or shoot them if they are combatants that are really that threatening to us - but this stripping of rights by default through waffling is not in the spirit of American greatness.
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Cogito ergo spud -- I think, therefore I yam
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