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Of course, another contributing disincentive for assigning POW status is the fact that - in this "asymmetrical" conflict - we basically have no soldiers/POWs of our own in hostile foreign detention whose treatment standards we are concerned about.
Well now, ain't that a biggie?
Many of us questioned the foreign policy team Obama put together as altogether too much neo-con lite, Democratic-Leadership-Counsel-establishment type baggage, and we're seeing the fruits of this in the continuing"war on terror" (but don't use those words!) and foreign policy generally.
Obama talks pretty, but so far, with the exception of some modest pressure on Israel, its largely business as usual for the Empire.
