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JOHN MCCAIN'S BILL would protect interrogators from civil suits, would punish them only for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and would increase rights of appeal to the U.S. courts. It would preserve references to the Geneva Conventions in the War Crimes Act. The Arizona Senator and his co-sponsors, John Warner and Lindsey Graham, argue that if the U.S. interprets Geneva to its liking, other countries will too, endangering American troops if they are captured...
...Bush's confidence in such settings may inspire some, though it's his very refusal to see shades of gray that makes the Administration's position on torture so frustrating for civil rights advocates. Bush and his allies seem to argue that it is the ideals we fight for - and not how we fight - that defines a democracy. If that's a civil society, I'd hate to see an uncivil...
...some of the reasons why even Washington might gain from avoiding a confrontation with Iran at the present time. The prospects for U.S. success in Iraq have deteriorated steadily over the past three years, as the insurgency has raged and sectarian conflict has threatened to turn into full-blown civil war. Without cooperation from Iran, which is far closer than Washington is to the Shi'ite parties that dominate the new Iraqi government, the U.S. is unlikely to reverse the slide in Iraq...
Patrick—a onetime Dunster resident, former litigator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton administration—said that the law had “suspect origins” and was originally intended to prevent out-of-state interracial couples from marrying...
...that finds community by supporting candidates on thefacebook.com. The authors clog the text with numbers and names, quotations, and references to other sociological work. They question the pre-9/11 findings of Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert Putnam and his famous warning about the disappearance of American civil society. Part leadership how-to and part sociological study, “Applebee’s America” may have tried to take too large a bite of analytical pie. The authors certainly drive home their points with statistical and anecdotal data spanning the fields of politics, business, and spirituality...