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...emasculate the treaty, destroying it in practice if not in theory.If the United States reserves for itself the right to suspend, or even limit, the Conventions, they become a charade. Other signatories are implicitly given permission to do the same, leaving the protections to be enforced only at the captors?? discretion. It is hypocrisy to claim that such legislation amounts to fulfilling our treaty obligations, which Bush adamantly maintains we intend to do.The United States needs to accept the inconvenience of the moral high ground and defend the Geneva Conventions. American soldiers give their lives to defend...
...cuts three years into the future Hasan and Khalid are in the final stages of planning for a multi-phase bombing in New York City. At this juncture the film threatens to become a conventional revenge narrative: with Hasan avenging himself of his torture by murdering citizens of his captors?? nation. However, “War” resists convention and instead indicts the calculus of the “an eye for an eye” ethos. This stands in stark contrast to American action films like “Collateral Damage,” in which...
...being widely hailed as soft-spoken but deeply honest and willing to press anyone for the truth, regardless of their power or title. His last words were an affirmation that he was too dignified to abandon the truth of his own existence in the face of his captors?? pressure. Although the circumstances of Pearl’s last words are unclear, it might be possible that his captors wanted the video to emphasize Pearl’s Judaism in order to capture the imaginations of anti-Semitic Muslim militants, one must think Pearl was proud...
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