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...disdain for treaties and bodies that might make the world safer at the cost of U.S. autonomy, like the Kyoto accords on global warming, the International Criminal Court and a stronger U.N. Europe will applaud if the U.S. Supreme Court continues to upgrade legal standards for prisoners at Guantánamo. Few expect Bush's second term to be as unilateralist as the first. But he will be skeptical of treaties and international law. ASIA China's boom makes it an indispensable economic partner for Europe and the U.S., but its cheap wages and huge trade surplus lie behind popular...
...said, but "I can't, sincerely at least, apologize for removing Saddam." As one M.P. said, "I wasn't inspired" - and this was the kickoff for a general election expected next year. More video footage of British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading for Blair's help, this time wearing a Guantánamo-style orange jumpsuit in a cage, kept Iraq's chaos in the newspapers. The cumulative burdens helped explain Blair's surprise pre-operative pledge to quit before the end of his next term - assuming he gets re-elected - probably around his 10-year mark in office. This officially...
...Scandal at Abu Ghraib As details of the horrible torture of Iraqi prisoners of war by U.S. soldiers and interrogators continue to emerge [May 17], they fit into a pattern of abuse shown in reports from Afghanistan and Guantánamo. Such a consistent approach can only be explained by direction from the top, not by anarchy from below. As a psychologist, I can state that some of the methods are well-known psychological procedures of behavior control. The attempt by the Bush Administration to blame individual soldiers for these abuses is ridiculous. Guido F. Gebauer Niedersachsen, Germany...
...expressed contrition for the inhumane treatment of Iraqi detainees in prisons controlled by American forces. Will it now demonstrate contrition by releasing the detainees at Guantánamo Bay or by bringing them immediately to an independent and impartial trial? Magnus Nielsen London...
...determining factor in detention." Colonel MATTHEW BEEVERS, chief spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, explaining why juveniles are in custody there and in Guantánamo...