Word: confessionalism
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If you don't know what to make of the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confession - and I certainly don't - blame the Bush Administration's duplicitous and inconsistent approach to handling state secrets.
I mean, here's a guy with a long record of clear-cut evil, and all the transcript of his confession does is raise questions. Were his claims of responsibility for dozens of attacks mere boasts or the fruits of abuse or torture over years of detention? Why did the...
Talk is cheap when confession plays as entertainment on daytime TV. In politics, as in church, there's no telling when penitence is sincere, for God alone knows the human heart. But it's a useful test in judging character to ask whether admitting failure comes at a cost--or...
The purpose of the Gingrich interview was to clear away some of the underbrush for Gingrich's potential presidential candidacy and possibly also for Dobson's support of it. Dobson liked Gingrich's confession. He concluded, "Well, I appreciate your allowing us to delve into that. Obviously the reason that...
It's hard to tell what the Pentagon's objective really is in releasing the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession. It certainly suggests the Administration is trying to blame KSM for al-Qaeda terrorism, leading us to believe we've caught the master terrorist and that al-Qaeda...