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...United States needs ‘prominent, articulate Islamic leaders we could look to for counterweights,’ Clarke said. ‘We have to get inside the head of the enemy.’” This quotation, taken out of context (and I’m not even sure whether Clarke actually said these two sentences consecutively as it is printed in the article, in which case it is even worse), implies that Clarke believes that all Muslims are the enemy. However, Clarke, repeatedly through his talk, emphasized how he views terrorism as a civil...
...takedown orders were slathered in legalisms. As the commission's staff members noted in a report, "CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to try to capture bin Laden ... They believed that the only acceptable context for killing bin Laden was a credible capture operation...
...population of two polluted towns, Picher and Cardin. Court papers suggest that mining executives knew as early as the 1930s that the contaminated dust was dangerous but sought to, in their words, "dissuade" the government from intervening. A mining-company lawyer says the charge is based on "out-of-context reading" of historical documents...
...some ways, of course, he did. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is candid in saying that no one expected fighting like this a full year after the fall of Baghdad. But any judgment about the President's judgments requires context. First, the context of the war on terrorism, which means examining the entire post--Sept. 11 ledger. That includes more than just the past two weeks of bloodletting in Iraq. It includes overthrowing the Taliban, liberating Afghanistan, scattering and decimating alQaeda, deposing Saddam Hussein, disarming Libya and turning Pakistan from supporter of the Taliban (and by extension alQaeda) into perhaps...
Though Harvard voices a strong commitment to BGLT students, a number of important policies are rarely debated in a larger campus context. For transgender students—and often, queer students in general—basic issues of bathroom access and housing policy are a bureaucratic nightmare each and every day. When you can be arrested for going in a bathroom that doesn’t match the sex on your birth certificate or you’re paired with a roommate who urges you to “turn straight,” your best bet is often...