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...shock and anger following the terrorist attack has also resulted in calls to lift the longstanding American policy against state-sponsored covert assassinations. A ban on covert assassinations of foreign leaders was first imposed by President Gerald Ford in 1976, and an executive order signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 prohibits direct or indirect involvement in assassinations...
While the use of force on specified groups to prevent attacks on the U.S. may be justified, the possibility of covert assassinations gives one pause. The Constitution provides for the president to be Commander-in-Chief so as to maintain civilian control of the military. America can hardly be called a democracy if there is no democratic oversight over the use of force in our name. If the public disagrees with a president’s use of cruise missiles or Special Forces to take on a military threat, it can express that view at the next election; no such...
...power-broker are increasingly at odds. Pakistan had been a key U.S. regional ally in the Cold War, particularly during the Reagan administration's proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Its territory provided the staging ground and its intelligence service the conduit for billions of dollars of U.S. covert aid funneled to Islamist fighters in Afghanistan, including Osama Bin Laden, who were waging 'jihad' against the Soviet invaders...
...love to see Saddam unhorsed, says an official at State. "But you need a serious plan that's doable. The question is how many lives and resources you have to risk." Powell's unwillingness to fight any less-than-total war is legendary, and the particulars of launching a covert insurgency among the feuding Iraqi opposition factions would give any general pause. The proposition is still "hypothetical," he told TIME. But plenty of others on the Bush team are gung...
...love to see Saddam unhorsed, says an official at State. "But you need a serious plan that's doable. The question is how many lives and resources you have to risk." Powell's unwillingness to fight any less-than-total war is legendary, and the particulars of launching a covert insurgency among the feuding Iraqi opposition factions would give any general pause. The proposition is still "hypothetical," he told TIME. But plenty of others on the Bush team are gung...