Musings on treatment
of terrorists

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Random thoughts just passing through my mind:

There are complaints about the "inhumane" way the United States is treating Taliban prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They're under close arrest and need to be observed. Maybe we can salvage their dignity by forcing them to wear burqas, the heavy cloth head-to-toe sack with a tiny nose hole that Afghan women were forced to wear.

Then there's debate about whether the United States should torture or assassinate known terrorists. That's just not the way we do things. We should go high-tech. Capture 'em, ether 'em and while they're under, secretly plant Global Positioning System tracking devices -- about as big as a hat pin -- in their butts so we know where they are at all times.

--Burl Burlingame

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