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...tolerance for rising casualties in Vietnam. The modern ban came out of a fear that these kinds of images would influence public opinion on warfare. The banning of media photography of soldiers’ caskets because of such political considerations deprives the public of the true knowledge of the human costs of war. Such bans also do a disservice to our nation’s soldiers. An attempt to sanitize the realities of warfare by disallowing photography of their caskets obscures their sacrifice and does greater dishonor than the caskets’ display. The photography of military caskets...
...have diverse, autonomous cultures everywhere and then be unified as human beings,” Aykroyd said in an interview. “[Diversity] can knit together all different constituencies to bring home a better vision and a better execution of our life on the plant...
...namo is a giant step. But, as we have learned so dearly in the past, decisive action calls for a coherent exit strategy. More crucially, the United States and its allies need a new game plan for handling international terrorist suspects—a strategy that jives with both human-rights concerns and a stronger commitment to multilateral counterterrorism...
...Some human-rights advocates have called for the 250 prisoners at Guantánamo to be immediately charged or released. Unfortunately, this is overly idealistic and unlikely to happen. Nevertheless, they should not all be held indefinitely. If evidence has been provided against a detainee, she should be brought to trial. International law dictates that the United States can hold captured combatants without trial until the end of an armed conflict. But, since the global war on terror is itself indefinite in scope and duration, the best option is to prosecute suspects in either U.S. courts—where they...
...Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog, suggested that the tribunal was ?politically selective? and that it should address the enormous number of other serious crimes committed in Lebanon in recent decades, especially during the 1975-1990 civil war. ?The mandate is by far the narrowest of any tribunal of an international nature,? Amnesty said in a statement issued Friday...