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...they. America’s democratic system places the responsibility for creating law on the shoulders of the American people via popularly elected representatives. The legislature should create the law, while the judicial system interprets it; this is the very basis of the separation of powers. Allowing juries to disregard the will of the people by voiding an individual law in a specific case undermines the democratic nature of the American legal system. If the people perceive the law as arbitrarily determined by a 12-member panel lacking any accountability to the citizenry at large, popular confidence in a uniform...
...particular, Pipes said, many Middle Eastern specialists disregard competing viewpoints and base their own opinions stem on a “disregard of militant Islam” and on anti-semitic viewpoints...
...quite natural that we bristle at perceived unilateral American policies, whose very premise is that the United States has the right to disregard the opinions of foreign nations, and to override them altogether when doing so is necessary to achieving a stated end. The enlarged sphere or autonomy that America claims for itself in turn suggests that the United States occupies a privileged position in the international pecking order, and here we arrive at the most fundamental irritant: Unilateral policies, by reserving to oneself the right to act over the objections of one’s neighbors, presuppose one?...
Despite the terrorists’ conceptual disregard for the “individual,” reality exists only for individuals. The devastation of Sept. 11 was real only to individuals; it was only experienced on the personal level. Many of us at Harvard felt the blow to the towers and heard the death knell of the attacks. Even as the frightful reports streamed in, I myself didn’t cry on Sept. 11 until I remembered the calm of the damaged St. Paul’s Church I had experienced one Sunday last spring. My memory...
...have never given Iraq a clean bill of health! Never! Never! I've said that no one has backed up any allegations that Iraq has reconstituted WMD capability with anything that remotely resembles substantive fact. To say that Saddam's doing it is in total disregard to the fact that if he gets caught he's a dead man and he knows it. Deterrence has been adequate in the absence of inspectors but this is not a situation that can succeed in the long term. In the long term you have to get inspectors back...