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Critics of Bush's F.D.R.-style military tribunals grandly point to the model of the stately Nuremberg trials. But the analogy is absurd. Nuremberg occurred after Nazism had been beaten, broken, banished to oblivion. Nuremberg marked the closing of a bankrupt account. It was less a trial than a form of documentation of crimes the world had known little about. The crimes of Sept. 11 hardly need publicizing. Moreover, radical Islamic terrorism is by no means dead, even after a major defeat in Afghanistan and even if Osama is captured. What sane nation gives the enemy a megaphone...
...removing cases of terrorism from the federal courts, the United States risks losing an opportunity to send a message to the world much like the one sent by the Nuremberg trial—that our nation’s commitment to impartial and transparent justice will not be shaken by even the most inhuman atrocities...
CONVICTED. GEORGE TROFIMOFF, 74, retired Army Reserve colonel and son of Russian emigres; of spying for the U.S.S.R. and Russia; in Tampa, Fla. From 1969 to '94, Trofimoff fed Moscow highly classified documents--including some with detailed U.S. knowledge of Soviet military capabilities--from an Army interrogation center in Nuremberg, Germany. He is facing a possible life sentence...
...Arendt was talking about how the relentless push-and-pull of organizations and bureaucracies can create a way to blame the system rather than oneself. "I was just following orders" - that was the mantra of the German officers at the Nuremberg Trials. It's not a completely illegitimate defense. But I don't think Andrea Yates will say she was "just following orders...
...That’s what the Nazis said at Nuremberg,” she recalls him saying...