Word: argumentative
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...toward their occupiers. But with the revelations of torture and humiliation by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison - and their unhappy echo in tales of abuse by some British soldiers - Britain's self-respect and image in the world is on the line as never before. Or so the argument goes. But the Prime Minister insists he will "remain shoulder to shoulder" with Bush. In a newspaper interview last week, he dismissed "this idea that at the time of maximum difficulty you start messing around your main ally." And Blair is right, because his main responsibility must...
...passed beyond the point of voluptuous to a plus-sized state of outright voluminous. Sure, it’s a Good Thing when your family doctor is well-versed in the ins and outs of both Kant and cardiac arrest, and of course long division (for the sake of argument) should not be beyond the reach of even the most diehard lit-critter. An entire semester’s-worth of courses aligned explicitly as outside the interests set forth by the student themselves, however, seems to cross that proverbial line and interfere in a rather cumbersome way with...
...Quirin decision should be required reading for those who think the Bush administration has abandoned constitutional precedent by designating captured terrorist Jose Padilla an “enemy combatant” and holding him without trial. Indeed, the administration has relied heavily on Quirin as the basis of its argument in Rumsfeld v. Padilla, a watershed case now before the Supreme Court...
...zone of combat” argument? Well, when facing an enemy whose tactics are directed chiefly at civilians far removed from the conventional battlefield, we might say that the entire American homeland is potentially a “zone of combat.” Moreover, the Quirin Court made short work of this argument in 1942. It said that American citizens who enter U.S. territory during wartime “in civilian dress and with hostile purpose” are “enemy belligerents,” plain and simple. Whether they are physically captured...
Summers’ letters to Powell and Ridge outlined an argument that complicates an already thorny set of issues still further...