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...must point out that the U.S. has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them on human beings. In the process of removing Saddam Hussein, the U.S. showered conventional bombs on Iraq, killing innocent citizens. The torturing of prisoners in Abu Ghraib was another heinous crime. So it is hypocritical for Americans to condemn Khan when it is the U.S. that has lost the confidence and trust of the world. Nizar Ali London TIME's reporting on Khan's dangerous game of selling nuclear technology reminded me how vitally the world needs...
...fighting to uphold the military's core values. In that sense, the Pantano case is a window on a larger debate within the military about how and when to apply the rules of war in a shadowy fight against an unconventional enemy. In the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses and other highly publicized excesses--such as the televised Marine shooting of a wounded insurgent in Fallujah last fall--the top brass is disinclined to tolerate rogue behavior of any kind. When asked about Pantano last week, General Michael Hagee, commandant of the Marine Corps, would not comment directly...
...work while awaiting a ruling on his conscientious-objector application. Raised in the Bronx, Paredes joined the Navy because he was eager to get an education. Nearly five years later, he says he is ashamed to be a member of the same military responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and claims to be a victim of the "poverty draft," which he says encourages poor people with no career prospects to join the armed forces. The most famous deserter, Marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun, who briefly appeared to have been kidnapped in Iraq last June only to resurface...
Instead, he hopes the Abu Ghraib Show will “send a message about the universality of humanness...
...Adams House Social Studies concentrator has “always been interested in politics and theatre.” The Abu Ghraib Show, the first “distinctly political” show performed at the Loeb Experimental Theater in decades, is the perfect...