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However, preemptively increasing the President’s power with a further militarization of American society is the absolutely worst way to respond to the flu threat. The U.S. military is an unwieldy force that possesses combat??not medical—expertise. Forced quarantines could only be a desperate last resort after a massive collapse of health infrastructure. Instead of improving communication between local, state, and federal emergency services, increased military power would amplify mistakes made at the top of the chain of command...
Snipp, the Stanford sociologist, said yesterday that Summers’ claim—that many more indigenous people died from disease than from direct combat??is “factually correct...
...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...
...With a movie like this, with this type of action—hand-to-hand combat??what I wanted to try to capture was a way I could implement what made movies of the 70s really cool,” he says. “Just in terms of if a real fight breaks out with real men, what happens...
...charge of about 45 young men, and he’s taking them to combat??and he’s only 26,” she said...