Well, I don't blame you, KirStang, the whole operation is a mess—ethically, politically, and legally.
If you choose to overlook the status of a child victim of war crimes for the benefit of his intelligence value, where does that leave you? Well, at least it looks less and less bad as he grows—in a cage—from a child into a Muslimy-looking bearded man.
This is just one example of how many?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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