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...youngest, least patient, and most spoiled member of my family, I saw it as my prerogative—my duty even—to vocalize all displeasures and frustrations as often as possible. Take an easy coming-of-age task like swallowing a pill for example??this eluded my single-digit-self like rocket science...
...what of times when “enhanced” interrogation did work? Perhaps the most striking example??the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whose coercive treatment produced a litany of confessions—will provide a cautionary tale. Over the course of his interrogation, Mohammed boasted of plans to assassinate President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, and Pope John Paul II, among others. CIA cables back to Washington warned that “the detainee has been known to withhold information or deliberately mislead.” Never mind that by treating Mohammed so poorly, U.S. officials...
DeBergalis can recite a list of statistics—the annual American ice cream market is $12 billion, and the annual video game market is $20 billion, for example??that make the amount spent on elections look like pocket change. “We are competing, and losing badly, in my opinion, for the attention of people compared to all the other things that can occupy your time and money, ranging from entertainment to goods that you like to buy,” he says...
...skills and resources and the other things you need to build infrastructure—hospitals, businesses, for example??weren’t there, and it just takes a long time,” he said...
...carried out on the orders of Saddam in Northern Iraq gave Ignatieff vivid, personal reasons for opposing Saddam’s regime. “The lesson I draw for the future is to be less influenced by the passions of people I admire—Iraqi exiles, for example??and to be less swayed by my emotions,” Ignatieff wrote. This unresolved tension between the initial argument Ignatieff makes about the dangers of academic judgment and the final reasons he provides for his own mistake is part of what has made his apology controversial. Ignatieff...