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So if the operation was a success, how come the patient is dying? The Administration may have called it a "humanitarian" mission, but this was old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy: send in the Marines, depose a government you don't like, install a friendlier one and leave the natives to fend...
Navy Seaman Marcus Gill told a Japanese courtroom that he did not force two Marines to join an attack on a 12-year-old Japanese schoolgirl. Gill, accused along with Roderico Harp and Kendrick Ledet of rape, said that Harp and Ledet were the ones who jumped out of their...
I WAS ANGERED BY YOUR ARTICLE "KNOWing When to Stop." We doctors know when to halt medical treatment. However, our hands are tied. If we stop treating, we are sued, taken to court and, in some cases, jailed. Navigating the paperwork, ethics committees and legal issues of withdrawing support requires...
Yet even for seasoned workers such as Davis, the job is a high-wire act. "People who work in emergency response are like the first Marines on the beach: you don't know what kind of situation you're walking into," he says. "You're in a gang neighborhood. You...
Now that the superpower rivalry has ended and the danger of thermonuclear war has abated, the theory could be put into practice. International legal scholars even began toying with new approaches to intervention, suggesting that the world might have a right to take action against a government that was committing...