The question is though, if we are to adopt the methods of the terrorists in order to combat them, why bother to combat them at all? We will have lost by default and achieved the terrorists' aims for them.
The struggle against Al Qaeda is first and foremost an ideological one, not military. This is the point Bush has always missed. The most important thing is that we show through our actions that our ideals are superior to theirs, by not engaging in the same sort of despicable methods they do. Actually convicting known terrorists is a secondary goal and is pointless if doing so means losing the ideological struggle.
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