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...Daniel Pearl was an innocent civilian whose family never volunteered for the spotlight. So were the victims of 9/11. But the debate over their images started as soon as the airplanes struck the World Trade Center. HBO?s recent documentary In Memoriam used amateur video to chronicle Sept. 11; as someone jumps to escape the flames, a voice off camera lectures, "Don?t take pictures of that! What?s the matter with you?" Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani defended the images, arguing that we have not only a right but an obligation to watch...
Robert M. Leverone ’52, who served as a Navy midshipman while at Harvard, and was the keynote speaker at the ceremony, spoke to cadets of the importance of maintaining a civilian military and of upholding the responsibilities of their positions...
...addition, Gonzales has been a major proponent of Bush’s anti-terrorism agenda. He has staunchly defended the use of military tribunals, as opposed to civilian courts, to try people suspected of terrorist activity. He authored legal arguments to exclude al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees in Guantanamo Bay from prisoner-of-war status...
...people who drew up this petition and those who have signed it chose to ignore the terrible attacks that Palestinian militants have carried out against innocent civilians and the celebrations over terror attacks in some Palestinian neighborhoods. By only focusing on Israel’s actions, the petition ignores the context of the situation. Israel did not enter the West Bank and risk the lives of many young soldiers without reason. It was a measure of self-defense and did in fact allow Israel some respite from the terror campaign. Certainly Israel must protect civilian Palestinian lives, but to blame...
...Pakistan's "cross-border terrorism." Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told some of the 750,000 Indian troops massed with heavy artillery and short-range ballistic missiles all along the western front to prepare for a "decisive battle." He used the same alarming phrase a day later before the civilian press. Vajpayee ordered thousands more jawans, or soldiers, to the 3,000-kilometer-long border with Pakistan and moved five warships to the Arabian Sea. Pakistan responded by pulling 4,000 men out of peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone and stationing them along its eastern frontier. It is considering withdrawing...