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br> -- Vincent Chiarello br> Reston, Virginia /p>

Terrorists must be celebrating hysterically wherever they are hiding out and plotting their next butcheries.

Why shouldn't they be?

The Supremes' ruling certainly appears to be a substantial victory for those waging war against the war on terrorism. It also appears we societally still don't grasp we are at war -- one unlike we've ever fought -- or what the meanings of citizens and traitors and enemy are.

But I wonder what our servicemen and servicewomen -- especially ones currently serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, or getting ready to ship out to those places -- and their families are thinking about the treatment the soldiers might receive, if captured?

Are they thinking of civilians Nicholas Berg, Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-il, as well as Spc. Keith M. Maupin and Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun? Or of what their respective families might be thinking about the treatment of those men by terrorist cowards afraid even to show their faces?

I wonder, too: How is it with any conscience we march ahead daily, numbly, with federally sanctioned infanticide -- its victim count nearing or at 50,000,000 would-have-been-born Americans -- without any outrage from the ACLU or its cousins about the killing of those children and their rights, while screams heard in heaven arise about the rights and treatment of traitors and enemies?

Given the number of killings we've permitted through Roe v. Wade, we as a society have already outdone the combined murders by Hitler and his Nazis and Stalin.

p>But we must be sensitive to protecting the rights of traitors and enemies, right? br> -- C. Kenna Amos Jr. br> Princeton, West Virginia

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