Rattle wrote:
] According to his father, he was caught only after US officials
] detained him without charging him or allowing access to a
] lawyer. I'm guessing he was being "discouraged" from leaving
] at a point when officials didn't want the appearance of
] contractors and the like all leaving? shrug.

Well, it was inevitable that this would show up here. The circumstances involving his detention are certainly frustrating for the family, but seriously Iraq is a tough place and if you have the guts to go there you need to be prepared for this.

How do you process this? Were you angry after 911? Did you want to see someone get nailed for it? Well, so did they, when they saw how our GI's run a POW camp. Our abstract, deliberative system of justice is constantly strained by the weight of the real emotions that drive the violence it enacts. There's, I imagine, is a world where those emotions run unconstrained. And so violence becomes a cycle.

The clearest way to break that cycle is to simply break it, by not seeking justice. Unfortunately, sometimes it is impossible to do that and maintain your security.

U:Some probably better considered responses are offered in another post I made to this thread...

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