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...expects to spend another two months recuperating before heading home to Illinois. He and his wife share a small suite in the Fisher House on Walter Reed's grounds with their two daughters. Sasha, 2, and Sofia, born on July 13, are both Americans having been born on U.S. soil. "It was a little bit easier," their Dad says, "for them to become citizens...
...this year's most powerful 9/11 stories is, in fact, ultimately about how little has changed since that day. The Path to 9/11, airing Sept. 10 and 11 on ABC, dramatizes the report of the bipartisan 9/11 commission. (Court TV airs a documentary on the report, On Native Soil, Aug. 21.) Fast paced and shot with handheld cameras, Path plays like a somber, dysfunctional 24, with all the grit but little of the success. A few days before 9/11, CIA Director George Tenet (Dan Lauria) and CIA officer Kirk (Donnie Wahlberg) are in a conference room with bulletin boards groaning...
Since there have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11, it's obvious that George W. Bush's "cowboy diplomacy" is just what we need. The challenges the President has faced would test the fortitude of any leader, but thankfully he has proved to be more than equal to the task...
...great believer in the U.S. as a force for good, the thought of Guantánamo Bay leaves me sickened and disillusioned. The detentions show that in some significant ways, the U.S. has become like its terrorist enemies. Gitmo exists because of a technicality: it is not on U.S. soil. It would have been dismantled long ago if it were in Texas. Wayne Rosen Calgary, Canada...
...great believer in the U.S. as a force for good, the thought of Guantánamo Bay leaves me sickened and disillusioned. The detentions show that in some significant ways, the U.S. has become like its terrorist enemies. Gitmo exists because of a technicality: it is not on U.S. soil. It would have been dismantled long ago if it were in Texas. Wayne Rosen Calgary Guantanamo as a font of intelligence is a dubious notion, for the value of information obtained under torture is highly questionable. Believing that useful information can still be gleaned from some of the detainees after...