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...crimes, as well as conducting a campaign of genocide against Bosnian Muslims - yet an uninformed visitor to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia would be excused for thinking that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were the ones on trial. The pugnacious Milosevic claims he was defending his country against illegal interventions by the U.S. and NATO. He has sought delay at every turn. With high blood pressure putting him at risk of a heart attack, he continually demands more time to rest. The judges have finally called his bluff and threatened to hand the defense over to court...
...public’s resentment towards American foreign policy seems little different from across the Channel. Tony Blair’s approval ratings have plummeted since he started “acting like the 51st state.” And a politically charged play called Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom draws on the testimony of numerous “enemy combatants” held without due process by the United States in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay base...
...Sedition Acts unconstitutional. Jefferson feared that a strong central government might put an end to slavery. Jefferson's fight against the Alien and Sedition Acts is often placed in the context of free speech, but it had unintended consequences beyond that. The Kentucky Resolutions were among the first to defend states' rights, and Jefferson had even threatened secession. Similar ideas helped spark the Civil...
...David Hare created what is likely to be the only good play ever written about the British railroad system, drawn from the words of public officials, ordinary riders and family members of those killed in crashes. The hot ticket in London at the moment is Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,' an indictment of the treatment of imprisoned terrorist suspects, culled from the words of detainees, lawyers and public officials like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...last week offered the blunt assessment that "there is never going to be a Western-style democracy in Iraq." The danger, however, is that if Allawi finds himself at odds with large sections of his own people, the U.S. could find itself in an uncomfortable position of having to defend an unpopular regime. That danger certainly increases to the extent that elections are postponed or placed in doubt. But Allawi clearly understands the need to win allies quickly among those who could cause him the most problems - not only has he affirmed that elections will be held...