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With the full Faculty scheduled to discuss the University’s response to the war with Iraq at their monthly meeting today, more than 20 Faculty members have signed a statement saying that Harvard’s sharing in the profits of defense contractors poses a moral dilemma that can no longer be ignored...
...have been called "the great contribution of the American Revolution to the development of warfare." In this early part of the conflict in Iraq, Saddam Hussein's forces have borrowed heavily from that old American innovation. Now, before you send off enraged e-mail, I'm not suggesting any moral equivalence between the Minutemen and Saddam's thugs. But it is surprising that both the Pentagon and the American public seem to have been taken aback by the Iraqis' hit-and-run attacks...
...101st, briefed the leaders of the companies that would be encircling Najaf. Everyone expected the remaining fedayeen to attempt a break toward Baghdad even if it meant running the 101st's gauntlet. But if the fedayeen stayed and conscripted the locals at gunpoint again, Freakley faced a moral conundrum: "Imagine someone walking into your home and saying either you fight or we will kill your wife and daughters. They are doing what any man would do to protect his family." It won't be easy killing men who are doing that...
...those who specialize in international law are worried that the U.S. has lost some of the moral authority it needs to ask others to uphold the conventions. Some experts complained last year when U.S. special forces in Afghanistan wore local garb and beards in an effort to blend in. There was talk even within the Pentagon that such deceptive appearances could amount to perfidy in a war-crimes trial. The official line was that the Americans were wearing the uniform of the Northern Alliance. "But that may be a distinction without a difference for someone from the Arab community," says...
This ban is not about women’s health; it is not about saving unborn “children;” it is not even about moral choices according to particular religious traditions. The overarching goal of most anti-abortion activists is to reinstate traditional family structures and gender roles they believe have broken down in the United States during the past half-century, while aiming to prevent a shift in women’s status abroad by opposing the distribution of contraception and abortion services through international aid. This ban is misogynist, its proponents are dishonest...