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Reply #26: Maybe. My point is that we don't know. [View All]

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Silverhair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 10:37 AM
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26. Maybe. My point is that we don't know.
Information gained by those means could have been (probably was) used for covert ops too, and those don't get talked about either.

This kind of thing is a basic question for democracies. How do you remain honorable and still fight and win against dishonorable people? If you always fight "by the rules" and your opponent gets to do anything he wants to, you give a huge advantage to the "bad guy". But if you throw the rule book away, then you descend to the level of the bad guy and what is the difference? Do you allow your rule book to become a suicide book, or is it that your are doomed either way? These are very interesting questions.
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