DEEP SPACE NINE: "Inter Arma... " - REV. 01/08/99 - ACT FIVE    59.

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					ROSS
			I don't.

					BASHIR
			Just a "temporary" alliance?

					ROSS
			Something like that.

					BASHIR
			And you don't see anything wrong
			with what happened?

					ROSS
			I don't like it. But I've spent
			the last year and a half of my
			life ordering young men and women
			to die. I like that even less.

					BASHIR
				(heated)
			That's a glib answer. And it's a
			cheap way of avoiding the fact
			that you've trampled on the very
			thing those men and women are out
			there dying to protect. Doesn't
			that mean anything to you?

	Beat.

					ROSS
			Inter arma enim silent leges.

					BASHIR
			"In time of war, the law falls
			silent." Cicero. So is that
			what we've become -- a twenty-
			fourth century Rome? Driven by
			nothing more than the certainty
			that Caesar can do no wrong?

	Ross doesn't answer. He just picks up his combadge
	and puts it back on.

					ROSS
			This conversation never happened.
			You're dismissed.