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Both Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law Anne-Marie Slaughter and Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo ’89 invoked the stipulations of the Geneva Convention—the treaty that dictates the laws of modern warfare—in debating the treatment of Afghan detainees in the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
...Slaughter agreed that al-Qaeda members are not legitimate POWs under the Geneva Convention, but criticized the Bush administration’s support of tribunals. She argued that such a military framework allows the U.S. to “create...
...Slaughter also argued that the Taliban was a legitimate state under the Geneva Convention and that Taliban prisoners warrant treatment as POWs...
Such actions will damage both America’s image abroad and the anti-terrorist coalition the U.S. has built in military action against Afghanistan, Slaughter said...
...pose a clear danger to the security of the United States and its allies. All either have weapons of mass destruction, or have tried to develop them. Even more telling, several of these countries—most notably Iraq and Syria—have shown the willingness to slaughter their own people. And though Russia’s relationship with the U.S. has improved immeasurably since the Cold War, it would be irresponsible of the military not to have a nuclear contingency plan for the world’s largest nuclear power...