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...ouster of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. In desperately trying to hold on to power, Musharraf is making a joke of democracy. Democracy is not about installing a puppet parliament by forming an alliance with a popular political party; it has to do with having sound institutions and freedom of expression. Musharraf has set Pakistan back many years and undone the past eight years of his rule. Sadly, he was the one who claimed he was liberating Pakistan from the shackles of backwardness. Syed Arif Rehman, Karachi...
...environment is the defining challenge of our time. But if the list must be confined to a one-person nomination, the Dalai Lama--for his contributions to peace, spirituality, philosophy and science, as well as his nonviolent efforts on behalf of freedom from oppression for his people. His leadership in the study and development of neuroplasticity has also furthered science and medicine...
...Democrats being "tone-deaf" on national security. The problem is, nobody has yet figured out the good answer for the bad question "Are human rights more important than American national security?" The right answer is that without human rights, America cannot have national security. It is not "our freedom" that Osama bin Laden hates. It is the fact that we preserve our rights here in America but deny the same freedoms to others. Every time we infringe on human rights in an effort to bolster security, we lose both. Denying human rights has always been the greater risk to security...
Wilson expresses no regret over using his power base in Washington to covertly funnel billions in arms through the CIA to the so-called freedom fighters. For him, the best part came in 1986, when Stinger missiles he supplied arrived to clear Soviet helicopters from the skies. Describing it as a "total high," he says he knew then it was only a matter of time before the Russians would leave. "Who would have thought the 'evil empire' would collapse and, most astonishingly, that it would collapse without a single drop of blood from an American soldier?" He also...
Lest anyone actually believe Dershowitz’s misrepresentation, I am categorically in favor of the broadest possible freedom of speech for everyone, whether I agree with them or not. If Dershowitz had taken the time to study my writings and actions, he would have realized this. Criticizing the content of speech—as I did with President Bollinger—is not the same thing as trying to deprive him of the right to speak, a distinction a law professor ought to understand...