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...necessity is ever agreed upon in the first place. In the meantime, the answer is clearly not to shy away from Wikipedia like some rabid dog needing to be put down: The momentum gathered over the past few years is too valuable a thing to let slip. Instead, we ought to follow the mantra: “know thy sources.” Healthy skepticism is by definition healthy, and independent confirmation is a valuable commodity in conjunction with any single source online. And of course, if you’re browsing Wikipedia and find an error, change it! Just...
...that Jan. 30 has voided the claim that resisting the American democratic project is in the service of the Iraqi people, it is time for Europe to look to its common interest in helping Iraq succeed. But don't ask for a Condoleezza Rice apology in return. No apology ought to or will be given. The U.S. may not be the world's most artful liberator. But it is hard to think of a more sincere one. Ask the 8 million Iraqis who for the first time in their lives enjoyed that singular democratic experience: the free and secret ballot...
There is, I think, a way to resolve this problem. There is a difference, too easily ignored, between personal ambition, which is not at all cool, and activism, which is. Personal aspirations are in poor taste; grander aspirations ought not to be. The erosion of ambition leads all too easily to the erosion of idealism. Too often, the irony in which we are steeped turns corrosive. If you can laugh at anything that smacks of pretension—and, oh, we can—idealism becomes an early casualty. The solution is not to embrace personal ambition, which remains gauche...
...sensitive information to be aired in open court—or release them. The importance of the ruling, however, goes well beyond the fates of these 11 suspects: It constitutes a substantial piece of international legal precedent on the question of indefinite detainment for suspected terrorist links, one that ought to have extraordinary consequences for the way all countries involved in the “war on terror” deal with detainees...
...particular, the ruling ought to make other nations, especially the United States and (believe it or not) France, sit up and take notice, especially as the American legal proceedings stemming from the prisoner abuse at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility at Abu Ghraib get increasingly underway