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...away from militias operating "outside the law." Similar campaigns in Basra, the chaotic port 100 miles away, and Sadr City, the huge Baghdad slum, initially met fierce resistance from al-Sadr's followers, but the cleric ordered his fighters to stand down in the Amara operation, allowing it to proceed peacefully. "The previous operation that happened in Basra really hurt the fighters," Harbia says. "Now they prefer to flee rather than to resist...
...late. If construction can proceed apace, then Ground Zero can still be a showcase for American engineering, efficiency and ingenuity. Ward's candor is a good start...
...bygones, for the country to move forward." But now, with the current wave of violence that is taking place, I don't know what position one can take because these killings are really being sponsored by the military - the very same people who should have considered not to proceed on this genocide...
While most Americans hail these summits and now decry the invasion of Iraq (a case study in what happens when the militant conservatives get their way), the anti-engagers proceed as though history has not happened. Their selective memory of Reagan's foreign policy is telling. They correctly recall Reagan's having denounced the Soviets as "evil," his vast increases in U.S. defense spending and his support for a missile-defense shield. What they conveniently block out is the turn Reagan took in 1983 toward negotiation, which played a key role in bringing about the end of the cold...
...Those Guantánamo prisoners facing charges now, or in the future, will have the right to file their own habeas corpus petitions in U.S. courts, challenging the basis of their detention. But such challenges will probably proceed in parallel with their military-commission trials at Guantánamo, some of which are under...