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Entry: Who Guards the Guardians? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/who_guards_the_guardians#29816 Post contents: This reminds one of the Anglo-Irish War 1918-1920. Was the IRA a "terrorist" organzation as the British thought they were because they didn't wear the required uniform? Is your problem with Al Qaeda the fact that don't wear a "uniform" and they target U.S. troops from civilian areas instead of lining up on the battlefield so they can get slaughtered by U.S. firepower just as the IRA refused to do the same thing against British heavy artilery? Are you upset because they won't play dumb? If Al Qaeda is merely just a terrorist organization why are we treating as a problem with military solution? The RUC and Scotland Yard did the dirty work vs. the IRA in Northern Ireland, not the British Army, they just protected civilians. You say we are at war yet you will not give Al Qaeda nor the Taliban the status of an army. So why are we at war then against, if not an army, but a criminal organization? Should not the police handle criminals? Should not soldiers handle other soldiers? Technically you may very well be right by the letter of the convention, but then don't go around saying we're at war then if you do not wish to grant our enemies status as soldiers. Unless you're one of those big government types who talk about wars against drugs, wars against poverty, wars against crime, wars against pornography, energy crisis as the moral equivalent war and wars against terrorism, which you seem to be. Sent at: 2008 12 02