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...Suskind asserted that the CIA's torture of "high value" al-Qaeda operatives was wrong, using the tired old refrain that prisoners of war deserve a certain amount of dignity. But members of al-Qaeda target civilians in the most horrific ways. On 9/11, thousands of people in the World Trade Center, in the Pentagon and on Flight 93 were burned or crushed to death. The lucky ones died instantly, but there were surely many others who suffered excruciating pain for hours. Al-Qaeda will never give up, so it is critical to get information from its members that could...
...North Korea's test will alter the tenses and grammar of the international community's demands, from insisting that North Korea refrain from developing and testing nuclear weapons to insisting that it reverse course and agree to denuclearize under international supervision. Those demands will likely now be backed by tougher sanctions, although the extent of likely sanctions is uncertain because the factors restraining neighbors from choking North Korea's food and energy lifeblood remain in place. And North Korea clearly sees its nuclear test not as ending the discussion, but rather as a way of strengthening its negotiating position...
Rather, it seems that a multitude of über-competitive students refrain from studying abroad because they fear either missing out on leadership in their extracurricular of choice, or having less time to bolster their GPA (study abroad grades all transfer credit as Pass/Fail at Harvard...
...accept any deal that removes their right to enrich uranium at some point in the future; even if they do so temporarily, they don't intend to give up that right permanently. The U.S. insists that the only acceptable outcome of the diplomatic process is that Iran agree to refrain from doing any uranium enrichment on its own soil, ever, but the Europeans have recognized that such a goal may no longer be realistic. Although they won't say so publicly, many European diplomats say they may accept the idea of some limited enrichment for research purposes of the sort...
...order to be truly effective, and in order to help construct a stable political system, democratic political leaders must have a higher calling than a mere desire to hold power, and must also refrain from offering up unrealistic or impossible promises during campaigns. Hungary’s current crisis offers us a particularly clear example...