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...cooperation on the economy, there are opportunities for both sides." Alexander Rahr, a Russia specialist at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, says economic issues have come to predominate. "Merkel can't conduct a pro-human rights, pro-ngo policy toward Russia because then how can she defend German business?" Yet even Merkel, raised in East Germany, publicly criticized repression in Chechnya while meeting with Putin in Moscow. She is "cooler and more pragmatic" toward Russia than Schröder, says Rahr. Polenz argues that her government "is more clear-eyed about Russia's record on democracy...
...terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay in special military tribunals, it can't just declare them legal--it needs to work with the other branches of government to make them so. That in itself was a rebuke to the Administration's claim that it alone can decide how to defend Americans from terrorism. What the court did not say--despite the exultation of civil libertarians and the outrage of advocates of executive power--is that Guantánamo has to be closed. In fact, there are plenty of people who believe it's possible to comply with the court's ruling...
...This is the fate of those who defend Saddam Hussein." ONLOOKER outside an Iraqi police station where the body of Khamis al-Obeidi, one of the former dictator's defense lawyers, was being held. Al-Obeidi, abducted and murdered last week, was the third member of the defense team killed since the trial began...
...piece of advice then that Congressmen intent on changing the subject should heed: "In combat the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Otherwise, you die." The main thing today for Congress and the nation should be the war in Iraq. Soldiers are sworn to defend the right to free speech with their lives even if "speech" is expressed in despicable ways. What they want in return is the assurance that our lawmakers will hold their interests dear...
...Club founder John Muir, who convinced Teddy that the Federal Government would be a better protector of parkland than the states, and U.S. Forest Service chief Gifford Pinchot, who wanted strict controls over commercial use of woodlands--Roosevelt learned to shape his love of nature into a policy to defend it. The year after leaving the White House, he explained his philosophy to an audience in Kansas. He recognized the right, he said, even the "duty" of his generation to use the nation's natural resources. "But I do not recognize the right to waste them," he added...