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...life justified if it could save thousands? According to a CNN/USA Today poll last fall, 45% of Americans surveyed supported torture to prevent attacks. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has endorsed the issuance of "torture warrants" in the rarest of instances. While ethicists remain squeamish at the prospect of torturing low-level al-Qaeda recruits who probably aren't privy to life-sparing information, the stakes may be different in Zubaydah's case. Anthony D'Amato, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law who has defended a doctor charged with genocide, finds torture legally reprehensible but sees some moral...
...caviar was consumed.) So far, the Crown Prince has avoided being tainted with the family reputation. He drives a Jeep, wears a black plastic watch and says he plans to give up caviar. He can come across as a sort of Al Gore--earnest, consciously cerebral, techie. If the prospect of an Iranian Gore sounds grim, consider the alternatives--either before 1979 or after...
Until recently most Palestinians believed they had alternatives to the kind of militancy practiced by Hamas. For years after the 1993 Oslo peace accord, which brought limited self-rule to the Palestinians and the prospect of an independent state, polls showed a strong majority of Palestinians supporting the peace process with Israel and only a minority endorsing suicide bombings. Thus, in their headhunting, the fundamentalists were limited to stalwart followers of their doctrine, which holds that any kind of peace with Israel is anathema. Even then, Hamas and Islamic Jihad had to cajole--some might say brainwash--young men into...
...Sharon is not particularly comfortable with the prospect of renewed political talks, and certainly not with Arafat - despite the fact that moderate Arab and Palestinian leaders across the board have repeatedly stressed that there is no other address for negotiations. Sharon's coalition government is founded on a security consensus, but is deeply divided over the political horizon. His Labor Party coalition partners favor rapid movement towards a final settlement based on the same land-for-peace principles articulated in the Arab League's recent peace offer; Sharon opposes that vision and talks of "interim" agreements with unnamed moderate leaders...
Present: Pondering a trip to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in July. An intriguing prospect...